Paul Russell

The Riddle of Hume's Treatise

Skepticism, Naturalism, and Irreligion

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Produktbeschreibung

This is the paperback reprint of Paul Russell's 2008 book. In it, Russell challenges the conventional reading of Hume's Treatise with respect to religion. Although it is commonly held that Hume removed religious content from his Treatise. Russell claims that irreligious aims and objectived are fundamental to the Treatise and account for its underlying unity and coherence.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 444
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Juni 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 670g
• ISBN-13: 9780199751525
• ISBN-10: 0199751528
• Artikelnr.: 29738026

Autorenporträt

Paul Russell is Professor of Philosophy at the University of British Columbia. He is also the author of Freedom and Moral Sentiment (OUP 1995) and editor of the forthcoming OUP volumes Thinking about Free Will and The Oxford Handbook of Hume.

Inhaltsangabe

Abbreviations of Hume's Writings Used in Citations
I. Riddles, Critics, and Monsters: Text and Context
1.: The Riddle
2.: "Atheism" and Hume's Early Critics
3.: Religious Philosophers and Speculative Atheists
4.: Newtonianism, Freethought, and Hume's Scottish Context
5.: The Monster of Atheism: Its Being and Attributes
II. The Form and Face of Hume's System
6: A Hobbist Plan
7.: Atheism under Cover: Esoteric Communication on Hume's Title Pages
III. The Nature of Hume's Universe
8.: Blind Men before a Fire: Empiricism and the Idea of Good
9.: Making Nothing of "Almighty Space"
10.: The Argument a Priori and Hume's "Curious Nostrum"
11.: Induction, Analogy, and a Future State: Hume's "Guide of Life"
12.: Matter, Omnipotence, and Our Idea of Necessity
13.: Skepticism, Deception, and the Material World
14.: Immateriality, Immortality, and the Human Soul
15.: The Practical Pyrrhonist
IV. The Elements of Virtuous Atheism
16.: Freedom within Necessity: Hume's "Clockwork Man"
17.: . Morality without Religion
V. Hume's Philosophy of Irreligion
18.: . The Myth of "Castration" and the Riddle's Solution
19.: Was Hume an "Atheist"?
20.: . Hume's Lucretian Mission: Is It Self-Refuting?
Appendix: Cato's Speech at the Oracle of Ammon
Notes
Bibliography
Index