Hume S Imagination

Author : Jan Wilbanks
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 187 pages
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Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789401507097

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Hume’s Theory of Imagination by Jan Wilbanks Pdf

The present work is, as its title indicates, a study of Hume's theory of imagination. Naturally, it is a study of a particular sort. It has a certain scope and limitations, takes a certain line of approach, exhibits certain emphases, has certain ends-in-view, etc. As an initial step in specifying the nature of this study, I shall indicate its central problem, i. e. , that problem to the solution of which the solutions of the various other problems with which it is concerned are merely means. The central problem of this study is that of determining how Hume's theory of im agination is related to, or involved in, the generic features and main lines of argument of his philosophy of the human understanding. The expression "philosophy of the human understanding" is obvious to allude to a restriction on the scope of this investigation. ly intended Actually, it is a title suggested to me by two of Hume's philosophical writings; and to anyone who is even modestly acquainted with these writings, its reference should be no mystery. Hume published the first two so-called "Books" of his A Treatise of Human Nature in 1739. The first of these two Books was entitled "Of the Human Understanding. " Nine years later, he published a work under the title, An Enquiry Con cerning Human Understanding.

Author : Mary Banwart
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Imagination (Philosophy)
ISBN : OCLC:25565795

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Hume's Imagination by Mary Banwart Pdf

Author : Tito Magri
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 511 pages
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Release : 2022-10-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780192864147

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Hume's Imagination by Tito Magri Pdf

This book proposes a new and systematic interpretation of the mental nature, function and structure, and importance of the imagination in Book 1, 'Of the Understanding', of Hume's Treatise of Human Nature. The proposed interpretation has deeply revisionary implications for Hume's philosophy of mind and for his naturalism, epistemology, and stance to scepticism. The book remedies a surprising blindspot in Hume scholarship and contributes to the current, lively philosophical debate on imagination. Hume's philosophy, if rightly understood, gives suggestions about how to treat imagination as a mental natural kind, its cognitive complexity and variety of functions notwithstanding. Hume's imagination is a faculty of inference and the source of a distinctive kind of idea, which complements our sensible representations of objects. Our cognitive nature, if restricted to the representation of objects and of their relations, would leave ordinary and philosophical cognition seriously underdetermined and expose us to scepticism. Only the non-representational, inferential faculty of the imagination can put in place and vindicate ideas like causation, body, and self, which support our cognitive practices. The book reconstructs how Hume's naturalist inferentialism about the imagination develops this fundamental insight. Its five parts deal with the dualism of representation and inference; the explanation of generality and modality; the production of causal ideas; the production of spatial and temporal content, and the distinction of an external world of bodies and an internal one of selves; and the replacement of the understanding with imagination in the analysis of cognition and in epistemology.

Author : Timothy M. Costelloe
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 312 pages
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Release : 2018-03-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781474436410

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Imagination in Hume's Philosophy by Timothy M. Costelloe Pdf

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Author : Timothy M. Costelloe
Publisher : Edinburgh Studies in Scottish Philosophy
Page : 328 pages
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Release : 2019-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1474436404

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The Imagination in Hume's Philosophy by Timothy M. Costelloe Pdf

The prominence of the imagination in David Hume's philosophy has been recognised by generations of readers. In this rich study, Timothy Costelloe gives us the most complete picture yet of Hume's view of imagination and its place in his philosophy. Costelloe convincingly shows that Hume's concept of imagination is coherent, formulating the features that compose its distinctive character. Discover how this understanding of imagination informs Hume's approach to the various subjects he treats in his work: metaphysics, morals and politics, aesthetics, history, religion and the practice of philosophy itself.

Author : Jan Wilbanks
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
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Release : 2024-06-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9401507104

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Hume's Theory of Imagination by Jan Wilbanks Pdf

Author : Willard Clark Gore
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
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Release : 2022-10-27
Category : Education
ISBN : 1016196407

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The Imagination in Spinoza and Hume by Willard Clark Gore Pdf

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : David Hume
Publisher : VM eBooks
Page : 142 pages
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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 : Willard Clark Gore
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1341040186

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The Imagination in Spinoza and Hume by Willard Clark Gore Pdf

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Elizabeth S. Radcliffe
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2011-05-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781444337860

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A Companion to Hume by Elizabeth S. Radcliffe Pdf

Comprised of twenty-nine specially commissioned essays, A Companion to Hume examines the depth of the philosophies and influence of one of history's most remarkable thinkers. Demonstrates the range of Hume's work and illuminates the ongoing debates that it has generated Organized by subject, with introductions to each section to orient the reader Explores topics such as knowledge, passion, morality, religion, economics, and politics Examines the paradoxes of Hume's thought and his legacy, covering the methods, themes, and consequences of his contributions to philosophy

Author : Jeremy J. White
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0761810897

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A Humean Critique of David Hume's Theory of Knowledge by Jeremy J. White Pdf

A Humean Critique of David Hume's Theory of Knowledge provides the first full-length Aristotilian-Thomistic critique of Hume's most mature and familiar work. While giving Hume proper respect and appreciation for his achievement, Jeremy White engages in a thoughtful critique through an approach based in Hume's own method. He successfully uncovers Hume's unconscious indebtedness to his seventeenth century predecessors, including Locke and Bacon, whom he persistently discredited. White's discovery of Hume's assumptions and premises for building his philosophy provide much enlightenment regarding his ideas. The author's intimacy with the processes of Hume's mind and from where he drew his conclusions translates into a tremendous ease and comfort in gaining an understanding of Hume's epistemology and his underlying metaphysical assumptions.

Author : S. Yenor
Publisher : Springer
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137539595

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David Hume’s Humanity by S. Yenor Pdf

Scott Yenor argues that David Hume's reputation as a skeptic is greatly exaggerated and that Hume's skepticism is a moment leading Hume to defend common life philosophy and the humane commercial republic. Gentle, humane virtues reflect the proper reaction to the complex mixture of human faculties that define the human condition.

Author : Anne Jaap Jacobson
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0271042427

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Feminist Interpretations of David Hume by Anne Jaap Jacobson Pdf

These essays cover a diversity of subjects in Hume's work. They discuss his theory of knowledge: his conception of human inquiry and the human mind: his views on our knowledge of the external world and the future: his treatments of the passions, emotions, and virtue, his conception of moral education and his views on aesthetics and religion and his historical work.

Author : Ryu Susato
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781474404860

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Hume's Sceptical Enlightenment by Ryu Susato Pdf

The Scottish philosopher and historian David Hume (171176) has often been regarded as a key Enlightenment thinker. However, his image has been long contested between those who consider him a conservative and those who see him as a key liberal thinker. Hume's Sceptical Enlightenment offers a new interpretation for such diverse images and demonstrates the uniqueness of Hume as an Enlightenment thinker, illustrating how his 'spirit of scepticism' often leads him into seemingly paradoxical positions. This book will be of interest to Hume scholars, intellectual historians of 17th- to 19th-century Europe and those interested in the Enlightenment more widely.

Author : Stefanie Rocknak
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2012-09-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789400721876

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Imagined Causes: Hume's Conception of Objects by Stefanie Rocknak Pdf

This book provides the first comprehensive account of Hume’s conception of objects in Book I of A Treatise of Human Nature. What, according to Hume, are objects? Ideas? Impressions? Mind-independent objects? All three? None of the above? Through a close textual analysis, Rocknak shows that Hume thought that objects are imagined ideas. But, she argues, he struggled with two accounts of how and when we imagine such ideas. On the one hand, Hume believed that we always and universally imagine that objects are the causes of our perceptions. On the other hand, he thought that we only imagine such causes when we reach a “philosophical” level of thought. This tension manifests itself in Hume’s account of personal identity; a tension that, Rocknak argues, Hume acknowledges in the Appendix to the Treatise. As a result of Rocknak’s detailed account of Hume’s conception of objects, we are forced to accommodate new interpretations of, at least, Hume’s notions of belief, personal identity, justification and causality.