Body Mind And Self In Hume S Critical Realism

Author : Fred Wilson
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 553 pages
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Release : 2013-05-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783110327076

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Body, Mind and Self in Hume’s Critical Realism by Fred Wilson Pdf

This essay proposes that Hume’s non-substantialist bundle account of minds is basically correct. The concept of a person is not a metaphysical notion but a forensic one, that of a being who enters into the moral and normative relations of civil society. A person is a bundle but it is also a structured bundle. Hume’s metaphysics of relations is argued must be replaced by a more adequate one such as that of Russell, but beyond that Hume’s account is essentially correct. In particular it is argued that it is one’s character that constitutes one’s identity; and that sympathy and the passions of pride and humility are central in forming and maintaining one’s character and one’s identity as a person. But also central is one’s body: a person is an embodied consciousness: the notion that one’s body is essential to one’s identity is defended at length. Various concepts of mind and consciousness are examined - for example, neutral monism and intentionality - and also the concept of privacy and our inferences to other minds.

Author : Alan Bailey,Daniel Jayes O'Brien
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 473 pages
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Release : 2015-07-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781474243957

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The Bloomsbury Companion to Hume by Alan Bailey,Daniel Jayes O'Brien Pdf

David Hume (1711-1776), philosopher, historian, and essayist, is widely considered to be Britain's greatest philosopher. One of the leading intellectual figures of the Scottish Enlightenment, his major works and central ideas, especially his radical empiricism and his critique of the pretensions of philosophical rationalism, remain hugely influential on contemporary philosophers. This comprehensive and accessible guide to Hume's life and work includes 21 specially commissioned essays, written by a team of leading experts, covering every aspect of Hume's thought. The Companion presents details of Hume's life, historical and philosophical context, providing students with a comprehensive overview of all the key themes and topics apparent in his work, including his accounts of causal reasoning, scepticism, the soul and the self, action, reason, free will, miracles, natural religion, politics, human nature, women, economics and history, and an account of his reception and enduring influence. This textbook is indispensable to anyone studying in the areas of Hume Studies, British, and eighteenth-century philosophy.

Author : Alan Bailey,Daniel Jayes O'Brien
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2012-03-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781441114617

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The Continuum Companion to Hume by Alan Bailey,Daniel Jayes O'Brien Pdf

David Hume (1711-1776), philosopher, historian, and essayist, is widely considered to be Britain's greatest philosopher.One of the leading intellectual figures of the Scottish Enlightenment, his major works and central ideas, especially his radical empiricism and his critique of the pretensions of philosophical rationalism, remain hugely influential on contemporary philosophers. This comprehensive and accessible guide to Hume's life and work includes 21 specially commissioned essays, written by a team of leading experts, covering every aspect of Hume's thought. The Companion presents details of Hume's life, historical and philosophical context, a comprehensive overview of all the key themes and topics apparent in his work, including his accounts of causal reasoning, scepticism, the soul and the self, action, reason, free will, miracles, natural religion, politics, human nature, women, economics and history, and an account of his reception and enduring influence. This is an essential reference tool for anyone working in the fields of Hume Studies and Eighteenth-Century Philosophy.

Author : Erwin Tegtmeier
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783110330557

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Studies in the philosophy of Herbert Hochberg by Erwin Tegtmeier Pdf

Herbert Hochberg is one of the most influential analytical philosophers and one of the most influential critics of analytical philosophy. He disputed with almost all leading analytical philosophers, from Quine, Goodman and Wilfrid Sellars to David Lewis and David Armstrong. His point of view is ontological and he harks back to the origins of analytical philosophy where he finds unknown precursors of current views. And he finds parallels to contemporary non-analytic philosophies. In his own ontology he tries to dispense with simple particulars.

Author : Udo Thiel
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2011-09-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199542499

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The Early Modern Subject by Udo Thiel Pdf

Udo Thiel presents a critical evaluation of the understanding of self-consciousness and personal identity in early modern philosophy. He explores over a century of European philosophical debate from Descartes to Hume, and argues that our interest in human subjectivity remains strongly influenced by the conceptual framework of early modern thought.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2019-12-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004415270

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Idealist Alternatives to Materialist Philosophies of Science by Anonim Pdf

Idealist Alternatives to Materialist Philosophies of Science (ed. Philip MacEwen) presents some of the major challenges to materialist interpretations of science while also giving materialism a full hearing.

Author : Rupert Read,Kenneth Richman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2002-11
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781134555284

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The New Hume Debate by Rupert Read,Kenneth Richman Pdf

First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Daniel E. Flage
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-24
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780429640049

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David Hume's Theory of Mind by Daniel E. Flage Pdf

This book, first published in 1990, is a detailed examination of David Hume’s Treatise of Human Nature. It shows that the theory of mind developed in the Trestise is a thread which ties together many of the seemingly unrelated philosophical issues discussed in the work. Hume’s primary objective was to defend a ‘bundle theory’ of mind, and, through a close examination of the texts, this book provides a thorough account of how Hume understood this theory and the problems he discovered with it.

Author : Fred Wilson
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 825 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780802097644

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The External World and Our Knowledge of it by Fred Wilson Pdf

David Hume is often considered to have been a sceptic, particularly in his conception of the individual's knowledge of the external world. However, a closer examination of his works gives a much different impression of this aspect of Hume's philosophy, one that is due for a thorough scholarly analysis. This study argues that Hume was, in fact, a critical realist in the early twentieth-century sense, a period in which the term was used to describe the epistemological and ontological theories of such philosophers as Roy Wood Sellars and Bertrand Russell. Carefully situating Hume in his historical context, that is, relative to Aristotelian and rationalist traditions, Fred Wilson makes important and unique insights into Humean philosophy. Analyzing key sections of the Treatise, the Enquiry, and the Dialogues concerning Natural Religion, Wilson offers a deeper understanding of Hume by taking into account the philosopher's theories of the external world. Such a reading, the author explains, is not only more faithful to the texts, but also reinforces the view of Hume as a critical realist in light of twentieth-century discussions between externalism and internalism, and between coherentists and foundationalists. Complete with original observations and ideas, this study is sure to generate debates about Humean philosophy, critical realism, and the limits of perceptual knowledge.

Author : John Lachs
Publisher : Vanderbilt University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 0826512224

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Mind and Philosophers by John Lachs Pdf

The essays collected in this volume and written between 1959-1980 clearly belong to professional philosophy in both tone and context. Yet their ultimate aim is to explore larger problems and to set the groundwork for dealing with them. For the focus of attention throughout is human nature, not so much in the details of its structure or its social and moral manifestations as in its most general features and constituents. What sort of beings we are and how mind and body are related is the question at the very core of all inquiries into human nature.

Author : David Hume
Publisher : VM eBooks
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume Pdf

Moral philosophy, or the science of human nature, may be treated after two different manners; each of which has its peculiar merit, and may contribute to the entertainment, instruction, and reformation of mankind. The one considers man chiefly as born for action; and as influenced in his measures by taste and sentiment; pursuing one object, and avoiding another, according to the value which these objects seem to possess, and according to the light in which they present themselves. As virtue, of all objects, is allowed to be the most valuable, this species of philosophers paint her in the most amiable colours; borrowing all helps from poetry and eloquence, and treating their subject in an easy and obvious manner, and such as is best fitted to please the imagination, and engage the affections. They select the most striking observations and instances from common life; place opposite characters in a proper contrast; and alluring us into the paths of virtue by the views of glory and happiness, direct our steps in these paths by the soundest precepts and most illustrious examples. They make us feel the difference between vice and virtue; they excite and regulate our sentiments; and so they can but bend our hearts to the love of probity and true honour, they think, that they have fully attained the end of all their labours.

Author : Andrew Brown,Steve Fleetwood,John Michael Roberts
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134532674

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Critical Realism and Marxism by Andrew Brown,Steve Fleetwood,John Michael Roberts Pdf

This book examines the relationship between critical realism and Marxism. The authors argue that critical realism and Marxism have much to gain from each other. This is the first book to address the controversial debates between critical realism and Marxism, and it does so from a wide range if disciplines. The authors argue that whilst one book cannot answer all the questions about the relationship between critical realism and Marxism, this book does provide some significant answers. In doing so, Critical Realism and Marxism reveals a potentially fruitful relationship; deepens our understanding of the social world and makes an important contribution towards eliminating the barbarism that accompanies contemporary capitalism.

Author : Alan Schwerin under the auspices of the Bertrand Russell Society
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2012-04-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781443839471

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Hume’s Labyrinth by Alan Schwerin under the auspices of the Bertrand Russell Society Pdf

In his magnum opus, David Hume asserts that a person is “nothing but a bundle or collection of different perceptions, which succeed each other with an inconceivable rapidity, and are in a perpetual flux and movement.” (Treatise 252) Hume is clearly proud of his bold thesis, as is borne out by his categorical arguments and analyses on the self. Contributions like this will, in his opinion, help establish a new science of human nature, “which will not be inferior in certainty, and will be much superior in utility to any other of human comprehension.” (Treatise xix) Unfortunately for Hume, the bundle theory of the self subsequently elicits substantial criticism and hostility from numerous critics, both philosophical and non-philosophical. As confident as the young Scot is about the merits of his theory when he first proposes it, the sharp critical responses to his thought on the self ultimately compel him to withdraw his controversial views from public scrutiny. The irony is that the author of the bundle theory of the self himself acknowledges that his account of the self is seriously defective. In his appendix to the Treatise, Hume decries the labyrinth that his views on the self have driven him into. Five years in the making, Hume’s Labyrinth: A Search for the Self explores in detail both Hume’s views on the self and his critical reservations on an account of the self that would subsequently become highly influential in the philosophy of mind. Central to Hume’s Labyrinth is the suggestion that a careful analysis of the appendix to the Treatise throws an invaluable light on a number of elements fundamental to Hume’s views on the self, not least of which is the role of Berkeley’s views on language. While Hume often acknowledges the significance of Berkeley’s philosophy in the Treatise, the argument here is that Berkeley’s account of terms is the foundation of Hume’s philosophy of the mind, with its contentious bundle theory of the self. And when this influence is assayed a new dimension of Hume’s views on the self emerges. For now it appears that the bundle theory of the self is nothing but a heuristic device adopted by Hume to help further philosophical investigations into the mind. In short, it turns out that Hume is a pragmatist, intent on presenting an account of the self that researchers interested in the problems of human nature will find useful.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 724 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UOM:39015079746015

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The Philosopher's Index by Anonim Pdf

Vols. for 1969- include a section of abstracts.

Author : John Bricke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UCBK:B000765885

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Hume's Philosophy of Mind by John Bricke Pdf