Hume and Contemporary Epistemology (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Stapleford, Scott; Wagner, Verena

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book demonstrates Hume's relevance to contemporary debates in epistemology. It covers issues related to knowledge, belief, inquiry and suspension, reasons, modal knowledge, scepticism, hinge epistemology, naturalized epistemology, the ethics of belief and moral epistemology, virtue and vice epistemology, and testimony.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Oktober 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040192955
• Artikelnr.: 72285042

Autorenporträt

Scott Stapleford is Professor of Philosophy at St. Thomas University in Fredericton, Canada. His publications for Routledge include Logic Works: A Rigorous Introduction to Formal Logic (with Lorne Falkenstein and Molly Kao, 2022), Hume's Enquiry: Expanded and Explained (with Tyron Goldschmidt, 2021), Berkeley's Principles: Expanded and Explained (with Tyron Goldschmidt, 2016), and three edited collections: Seemings: New Arguments, New Angles (with Kevin McCain and Matthias Steup, 2023), Epistemic Dilemmas: New Arguments, New Angles (with Kevin McCain and Matthias Steup, 2021), and Epistemic Duties: New Arguments, New Angles (with Kevin McCain, 2020). Verena Wagner is Professor of Philosophy of Mind at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany. She works at the intersection of philosophy of mind and epistemology, focusing on the nature of mental states and attitudes involved in the process of making up one's mind, particularly the suspension of judgement. Her publications include Agnosticism as Settled Indecision (2022, Philosophical Studies), and two articles in Routledge collections: Epistemic Dilemma and Epistemic Conflict (2021) and Zetetic Seemings and Their Role in Inquiry (2023). She is co-editor of the Routledge collection Suspension in Epistemology and Beyond (with Alexandra Zinke, 2025).

Inhaltsangabe

Introductory Note Scott Stapleford and Verena Wagner Part I: Knowledge 1. A
Humean-Practicalist Conception of Knowing Stephen Hetherington 2. Why
Hume's Notion of Demonstration Must Reduce to Probability: A Prelude to
Quine Stefanie Rocknak Part II: Doxastic Attitudes 3. Hume on Pyrrhonian
Scepticism and Suspension of Judgement Verena Wagner and Scott Stapleford
Part III: Reason and Reasons 4. The Priority of Passive Reasoning Jonathan
Cottrell 5. In Search of Hume's Anti-Rationalism Karl Schafer 6. Hume and
the Unity of Reasons Eva Schmidt Part IV: Scepticism 7. Signs, Wonders and
Hume: From Humean Scepticism about Miracles and Reason to Contemporary
Sceptical Hypotheses and Back Again Kevin Meeker 8. Avoiding the Unexpected
Circuit: Humean Improvements on Standard "Cartesian" Skepticism Yuval Avnur
Part V: Hinge Epistemology 9. Humean Skepticism and Entitlement Santiago
Echeverri 10. Hume and Wittgenstein on Naturalism and Scepticism Duncan
Pritchard Part VI: Naturalized Epistemology 11. The Advancement of
Naturalized Epistemology: Reflections on Hume, Quine and Anderson Angela M.
Coventry Part VII: Modal Epistemology 12. Conceivability as the Standard
of Metaphysical Possibility Miren Boehm Part VIII: Moral Epistemology 13.
Hume, Deontological Epistemology, and an Ethics of Belief Qu Hsueh 14.
Natural and Artificial Epistemic Virtues Sarah Wright 15. Humean Vice
Epistemology: The Case of Prejudice Mark Collier Part IX: The Epistemology
of Testimony 16. Hume and the Epistemology of Testimony Dan O'Brien