Custom and reason in Hume: a kantian reading of the first book of the treatise

Henry Allison offers a new understanding of Hume's theory of knowledge, as contained in the first book of his Treatise. Allison provides a comprehensive and detailed critical analysis of Hume's views on the subject, and an extensive comparison with Kant on a range of issues including space and time, causation,existence, and the self. INDICE: Introduction; 1: Hume's Elements; 2: Hume's Doctrine of Space and Time; 3: Hume's Epistemological Divide in the Treatise; 4: 'Whatever beginsto be must have a cause of existence': Hume's Analysis and Kant's Response; 5: Hume's Analysis of Inductive Inference; 5: Appendix: Does Reason Beg or Command? Kant and Hume on Induction and the Uniformity of Nature; 6: Simple Conception, Existence, and Belief: Hume's Analysis and the Kantian Response; 7: Causation, Necessary Connection, and Power; 8: Hume on Scepticism Regarding Reason; 9: Hume on Scepticism Regarding the Senses; 10: Hume's Natural History of Philosophy and Hume and Kant as Philosophical Therapists; 11: Hume's Paralogisms; 12: Hume's Philosophical Insouciance; Bibliography; Index

• ISBN: 978-0-19-959202-9
• Editorial: Oxford University
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 432
• Fecha Publicación: 02/09/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés