The Cambridge Companion to Hume

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David Fate Norton
Cambridge University Press, 29.10.1993 - 400 Seiten
David Hume is, arguably, the most important philosopher ever to have written in English. Although best known for his contributions to epistemology, metaphysics, and the philosophy of religion, Hume also made substantial and influential contributions to psychology and the philosophy of mind, ethics, the philosophy of science, political and economic theory, political and social history, and to a lesser extent, aesthetic and literary theory. All facets of Hume's output are discussed in this volume, the first genuinely comprehensive overview of his work. The picture that emerges is of a thinker, who, though critical to the point of skepticism, was nonetheless able to build on that skepticism a profoundly important, and still viable, constructive philosophy.

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An introduction to Humes thought
1
Humes new science of the mind
33
Hume and the philosophy of science
64
Humes scepticism
90
Humes moral psychology
117
Hume human nature and the foundations of morality
148
The structure of Humes political theory
182
Principles of political economy
222
Humes literary and aesthetic theory
255
IO David Hume the historian
281
Hume on religion
313
Humes autobiographies
345
Bibliography
357
Index of names and subjects
377
Index of citations and references
392
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