Marina Frasca-Spada / P. J. E. Kail (eds.)

Impressions of Hume

Herausgeber: Frasca-Spada, Marina; Kail, P J E

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Impressions of Hume is an interdisciplinary volume of new essays from leading scholars on the work of David Hume. To some his writings are vehicles for intuitions, problems, and arguments which are at the centre of contemporary philosophical reflection; others locate Hume's views against the background of concerns and debates of his own time. Hume's texts may be read as highly sophisticated literary-cum-philosophical creations, or as moments in the construction of modernity; these are 'open' texts which present their reader with a bounty of different materials and inspirations. Frasca-Spada and Kail believe that the borders between these approaches are far from neat, and that as much cross-fertilization as possible is to be promoted. Impressions of Hume amply demonstrates the rewards of such an approach.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sydney University Press
• Seitenzahl: 322
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 161mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 614g
• ISBN-13: 9780199256525
• ISBN-10: 0199256527
• Artikelnr.: 22303500

Autorenporträt

Edited by Marina Frasca-Spada, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge and P. J. E. Kail, Department of Philosophy, University of Edinburgh

Contributors: M Frasca-Spada and P. J. E. Kail M. A. Stewart P. Lipton R. M. Sainsbury M. Bell S. James P. J. E. Kail J. A. Harris M. Frasca-Spada R. W. Serjeantson E. Mazza S. Manning S. M. S. Pearsall

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* 1: M. A. Stewart: Hume's intellectual development
* 2: P. Lipton: Waiting for Hume
* 3: R. M. Sainsbury: Meeting the hare in her doubles: causal belief
and general belief
* 4: M. Bell: Transcendental Empiricism? Deleuze's reading of Hume
* 5: S. James: Sympathy and comparison: two principles of human nature
* 6: P. J. E. Kail: Hume's ethical conclusion
* 7: J. A. Harris: Hume's use of the rhetoric of Calvinism
* 8: M. Frasca-Spada: Quixotic confusions and Hume's imagination
* 9: R. W. Serjeantson: Hume's general rules and the 'chief business of
philosophers'
* 10: E. Mazza: Hume's 'meek' philosophy among the Milanese
* 11: S. Manning: Hume's fragments of union and the fiction of the
Scottish Enlightenment
* 12: S. M. S. Pearsall: Hume on marriage
* Bibliography