Cognition and commitment in Hume's philosophy / Don Garrett
1997, 1st edition. New York : Oxford University Press. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #423563
ISBN: 0195097211
Physical description: xiv, 270 pages; 24cm. Contents: Abbreviations; Introduction; Philosophy in the Writings of David Hume; Philosophy and Its History; 1 Cognition and Imagination; Imagination and Intellect in Early Modern Philosophy; An Argument against the Intellect; Imagination and Other Cognitive Faculties; Five Kinds of Empiricism; Representation, Cognitive Psychology, and Philosophy; 2 The Copy Principle; The Status and Grounds of the Copy Principle; Alleged Counterexamples to the Copy Principle; Conceptual Empiricism and the Copy Principle; 3 The Separability Principle; The Separability Principle and Distinctions of Reason.
Status and Grounds of the Separability PrincipleRepresentational Simplicity and Separability; 4 Reason and Induction; The Skeptical Interpretation; The Nonskeptical Interpretation; A Third Interpretation; Determination by Reason; 5 Two Definitions of 'Cause'; Four Interpretations and Their Evidence; Two ""Neighboring Fields"": Definitions of Relations and the Necessary Connection Argument; The Two Definitions Reconsidered; The Representation of Causation; 6 Liberty and Necessity; Three Causal Doctrines; Attitudes toward Necessity and Liberty; Attitudes toward Necessity and Responsibility.
Hume's ""Reconciling Project""7 Miracles; Six Apparent Inconsistencies; Cognitive Psychology and Probability; The Argument against Testimony for Miracles; The Six Apparent Inconsistencies Resolved; The Probability of Miracles; 8 Personal Identity; Hume's First Account and Second Thoughts; Five Theories of Hume's Second Thoughts; Three Further Theories of Hume's Second Thoughts; Real Connections and the Representation of the Self; The Representation of Self; 9 Moral Evaluation; Nonpropositional and Propositional Theories; ""Moral Distinctions Not Deriv'd from Reason""
Three Aspects of Hume's Cognitive PsychologyA Cognitive History of Moral Evaluation; Inconsistencies Resolved; Another Reconciling Project; 10 Skepticism and Commitment; The Enlivening of Ideas; The ""Contradiction"" of the Modern Philosophy; The Inconceivability of Real Causal Connections; Reason's Reflective Subversion of Belief; Refined and Elaborate Reasoning; From Melancholy to Commitment; Skepticism and Commitment after the Treatise; Notes; References; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z.
Subjects: Hume, David 1711-1776 Contributions in theory of knowledge.
Skepticism. Belief and doubt. Théorie de la connaissance. PHILOSOPHY History & Surveys Modern.
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