Hume S Theory Of 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 : Jan Wilbanks
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
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Release : 2024-06-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9401507104

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Hume's Theory of Imagination by Jan Wilbanks Pdf

Author : Timothy M. Costelloe
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
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 : Willard Clark Gore
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1902
Category : Imagination
ISBN : UCAL:B3927310

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The Imagination in Spinoza and Hume by Willard Clark Gore 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 : Daniel E. Flage
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
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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 : E. J. Furlong
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 136 pages
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Release : 2014-06-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781317851684

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Imagination by E. J. Furlong Pdf

First published in 2002. This essay has its origin primarily in some of the remarks on imagination made by Professor Ryle in The Concept of Mind. Reflection on arguments used in that book led the author to make the distinctions which have been indicated by the phrases 'in imagination', with imagination', and the term 'supposal'. This book is mainly a philosophical study of the leading concepts.

Author : Ralph W. Church
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2019-04-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780429632006

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Hume's Theory of the Understanding by Ralph W. Church Pdf

This book, first published in 1935, is an examination of Hume’s theories of causal inference and belief in substance and his analysis of the understanding.

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 : Wayne Waxman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2003-09-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521541182

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Hume's Theory of Consciousness by Wayne Waxman Pdf

A comprehensive analysis and re-evaluation of Hume's Treatise of Human Nature.

Author : Kathleen Lennon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2015-02-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781317548829

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Imagination and the Imaginary by Kathleen Lennon Pdf

The concept of the imaginary is pervasive within contemporary thought, yet can be a baffling and often controversial term. In Imagination and the Imaginary, Kathleen Lennon explores the links between imagination - regarded as the faculty of creating images or forms - and the imaginary, which links such imagery with affect or emotion and captures the significance which the world carries for us. Beginning with an examination of contrasting theories of imagination proposed by Hume and Kant, Lennon argues that the imaginary is not something in opposition to the real, but the very faculty through which the world is made real to us. She then turns to the vexed relationship between perception and imagination and, drawing on Kant, Merleau-Ponty and Sartre, explores some fundamental questions, such as whether there is a distinction between the perceived and the imagined; the relationship between imagination and creativity; and the role of the body in perception and imagination. Invoking also Spinoza and Coleridge, Lennon argues that, far from being a realm of illusion, the imaginary world is our most direct mode of perception. She then explores the role the imaginary plays in the formation of the self and the social world. A unique feature of the volume is that it compares and contrasts a philosophical tradition of thinking about the imagination - running from Kant and Hume to Strawson and John McDowell - with the work of phenomenological, psychoanalytic, poststructuralist and feminist thinkers such as Merleau-Ponty, Sartre, Lacan, Castoriadis, Irigaray, Gatens and Lloyd. This makes Imagination and the Imaginary essential reading for students and scholars working in phenomenology, philosophy of perception, social theory, cultural studies and aesthetics. Cover Image: Bronze Bowl with Lace, Ursula Von Rydingsvard, 2014. Courtesy the artist, Galerie Lelong and Yorkshire Sculpture Park. Photo Jonty Wilde.

Author : Richard H. Lineback
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Imagination
ISBN : IND:30000088452184

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The Place of the Imagination in Hume's Epistemology by Richard H. Lineback Pdf

Author : Stefanie Rocknak
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 43,9 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.

Author : Tito Magri
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 511 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2022-09-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780192679116

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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 : Jeremy J. White
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 46,6 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.