David Landy

Hume's Science of Human Nature (eBook, ePUB)

Scientific Realism, Reason, and Substantial Explanation

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book updates our understanding of Hume's scientific methodology by using a more sophisticated picture of science as a model. Landy argues that Hume is a kind of scientific realist who holds that science can and must employ theoretical representations of unobservable entities to explain the observed regularities of experience, and that we are justified in believing in the existence of such entities solely on the basis of their explanatory power. Given the long-standing tradition of interpreting Hume as eschewing such forms of explanation, Landy's close and original reading of the Treatise has significant consequences for understanding many of his most famous arguments.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 278
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. September 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351383240
• Artikelnr.: 49273740

Autorenporträt

David Landy is Associate Professor of Philosophy at San Francisco State University. He is the author of Kant's Inferentialism: The Case Against Hume (Routledge, 2015).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter 1: Two Case Studies: The Impression-Idea and Simple-Complex
Distinctions
Chapter 2: Hume's Scientific Realism
Chapter 3: The Course of Science: Substance, Language, and Reason
Chapter 4: The Science of Body
Chapter 5: Necessary Connection and Substantial Explanation
Chapter 6: Explanation and Personal Identity in the Appendix