Hume's Inexplicable Mystery
Title | Hume's Inexplicable Mystery PDF eBook |
Author | Keith Yandell |
Publisher | Temple University Press |
Total Pages | 380 |
Release | 2010-06-30 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1439904057 |
A reexamination of Hume's views on religion.
Hume's "Inexplicable Mystery"
Title | Hume's "Inexplicable Mystery" PDF eBook |
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Release | 1998 |
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A reexamination of Hume's views on religion.
Hume's Abject Failure
Title | Hume's Abject Failure PDF eBook |
Author | John Earman |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | 230 |
Release | 2000-11-23 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0198029314 |
This vital study offers a new interpretation of Hume's famous "Of Miracles," which notoriously argues against the possibility of miracles. By situating Hume's popular argument in the context of the eighteenth-century debate on miracles, Earman shows Hume's argument to be largely unoriginal and chiefly without merit where it is original. Yet Earman constructively conceives how progress can be made on the issues that Hume's essay so provocatively posed about the ability of eyewitness testimony to establish the credibility of marvelous and miraculous events.
Nietzsche and the Philosophers
Title | Nietzsche and the Philosophers PDF eBook |
Author | Mark T. Conard |
Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | 306 |
Release | 2016-12-08 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1315310481 |
Nietzsche is undoubtedly one of the most original and influential thinkers in the history of philosophy. In his works, he not only grapples with previous great philosophers and their ideas, but he also calls into question and redefines what it means to do philosophy. Nietzsche and the Philosophers for the first time sets out to examine explicitly Nietzsche’s relationship to his most important predecessors. This anthology includes essays that discuss Nietzsche’s engagement with such figures as Aristotle, Kant, Socrates, Hume, Schopenhauer, Emerson, Rousseau, and the Buddha. Anyone interested in Nietzsche or the history of philosophy generally will find much of great interest in this volume.
Reading Hume's Dialogues
Title | Reading Hume's Dialogues PDF eBook |
Author | William Lad Sessions |
Publisher | Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | 298 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9780253215345 |
"... establishes the literary and philosophical greatness of the Dialogues in ways that even its warmest admirers have been unable to do before." --Terence Penelhum In this lively reading of David Hume's Dialogues concerning Natural Religion, William Lad Sessions reveals a complex internal hermeneutic that gives new form, structure, and meaning to the work. Linking situations, character, style, and action to the philosophical concepts presented, Sessions finds meaning contained in the work itself and calls attention to the internal connections between plot, character, rhetoric, and philosophy. The result avoids the main preoccupation of previous commentaries, namely, the attempt to establish which of the main characters speaks for Hume. Concentrating on previously unexplored questions of piety and theology, Sessions asks important questions in the philosophy of religion today--what is the nature of true religion, what is the relationship between theology and piety, and how should we actively engage with God?
Religion and Faction in Hume's Moral Philosophy
Title | Religion and Faction in Hume's Moral Philosophy PDF eBook |
Author | Jennifer A. Herdt |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 322 |
Release | 1997-10-23 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9780521554428 |
An examination of David Hume's work, revising our understanding of the period in which he lived and wrote.
David Hume
Title | David Hume PDF eBook |
Author | Claudia M. Schmidt |
Publisher | Penn State Press |
Total Pages | 492 |
Release | 2010-11-01 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9780271046976 |
In his seminal Philosophy of David Hume (1941), Norman Kemp Smith called for a study of Hume &"in all his manifold activities: as philosopher, as political theorist, as economist, as historian, and as man of letters,&" indicating that &"Hume's philosophy, as the attitude of mind that found for itself these various forms of expression, will then have been presented, adequately and in due perspective, for the first time.&" Claudia Schmidt seeks to address this long-standing need in Hume scholarship. Against the charges that Hume holds no consistent philosophical position, offers no constructive account of rationality, and sees no positive relation between philosophy and other areas of inquiry, Schmidt argues for the overall coherence of Hume's thought as a study of &"reason in history.&" She develops this interpretation by tracing Hume's constructive account of human cognition and its historical dimension as a unifying theme across the full range of his writings. Hume, she shows, provides a positive account of the ways in which our concepts, beliefs, emotions, and standards of judgment in different areas of inquiry are shaped by experience, both in the personal history of the individual and in the life of a community. This book is valuable at many levels: for students, as an introduction to Hume's writings and issues in their interpretation; for Hume specialists, as a unified and intriguing interpretation of his thought; for philosophers generally, as a synthesis of recent developments in Hume scholarship; and for scholars in other disciplines, as a guide to Hume's contributions to their own fields.