Abraham Anderson

Kant, Hume, and the Interruption of Dogmatic Slumber

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Produktbeschreibung

This book provides an examination of Hume's influence on Kant's philosophy, arguing that Hume inspired Kant's Critique of Pure Reason not by challenging empirical knowledge, but by attacking metaphysics and the proofs of the existence of God. It posits that both Kant and Hume were primarily interested not in skepticism about science or ordinary experience, but in a question of much greater existential and political importance: whether the belief in God can be based on proof.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 204
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. März 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 162mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 438g
• ISBN-13: 9780190096748
• ISBN-10: 0190096748
• Artikelnr.: 58306819

Autorenporträt

Abraham Anderson is Professor of Philosophy at Sarah Lawrence College. He was born in New York, and studied at Harvard and Columbia. He held postgraduate fellowships at the École normale supérieure (rue d'Ulm) and the University of Munich. He has also taught at the University of New Mexico, the Universidad Autónoma de México, St. John's College (Santa Fe), and the American University in Cairo. He is the author of The Treatise of the Three Impostors and the Problem of Enlightenment, as well as numerous articles on Kant, Descartes, and other topics.

Inhaltsangabe

* Chapter One: The Objection of David Hume and the Project of
Enlightenment
* Chapter Two: Defining "The Objection of David Hume"
* Chapter Three: Hume's Attack on the Rationalist Principle of
Sufficient Reason in the Enquiry
* Chapter Four: Interpreting Hume on the Causal Principle: Treatise
1.3.3, "A letter from a gentleman," and Kant's German Contemporaries
* Chapter Five: Hume's Attack on the "Impious Maxim" as the Hidden
Spine of the Critique