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Hume S Defence Of Causal Inference
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Author : Fred Wilson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1997
Hume S Defence Of Causal Inference written by Fred Wilson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Philosophy categories.
The Scottish philosopher David Hume (1711-76) has long been considered a sceptic on the subject of induction or causal inference. In this book, Fred Wilson convincingly reconstructs the Humean position, showing that Hume was in fact able to defend causal inference as a reasonable practice by using an alternative set of cognitive standards. Wilson demonstrates the workability of Hume's approach to causal reasoning by relating it to more recent discussions, for example, to Bayesian views of scientific inference and to Kuhn's account of scientific rationality. He also presents a variety of intriguing related topics, including a detailed discussion of Hume's treatment of miracles. As a whole, this work successfully argues that insofar as Hume presented philosophy with the problem of induction, it is also true that he solved it.
Hume And The Problem Of Causation
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Author : Tom L. Beauchamp
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 1981
Hume And The Problem Of Causation written by Tom L. Beauchamp and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1981 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
The authors demonstrate that Hume's views can stand up to contemporary criticism and are relevant to current debates on causality.
Hume S Theory Of The Understanding
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Author : Ralph W. Church
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019-04-25
Hume S Theory Of The Understanding written by Ralph W. Church and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-04-25 with Philosophy categories.
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.
Hume S Theory Of The Understanding
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Author : Ralph Withington Church
language : en
Publisher: Greenwood Publishing Group
Release Date : 1935
Hume S Theory Of The Understanding written by Ralph Withington Church and has been published by Greenwood Publishing Group this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1935 with Philosophy categories.
The author discusses Hume's theories of causal inference and his belief in substance to demonstrate that his philosophy, usually characterized as total scepticism, is not merely negative.
Hume S Scepticism And The Science Of Human Nature
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Author : Paul Stanistreet
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-07-05
Hume S Scepticism And The Science Of Human Nature written by Paul Stanistreet and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-05 with Philosophy categories.
This book explores the relationship between Hume's sceptical philosophy and his Newtonian ambition of founding a science of human nature. Assessing both received and 'new' readings of Hume's philosophy, Stanistreet offers a line of interpretation which, he argues, makes sense of many of the apparent conflicts and paradoxes in Hume's work and describes how well-known controversies concerning Hume's thinking about causation, induction and the external world can be resolved. Stainstreet argues that Hume's notorious sceptical arguments are not the episodic outbursts of an unsystematic philosopher, but emerge as part of his attempt to provide science and philosophy with grounds which face up to and withstand the scepticism to which reflective thinkers are naturally prone. Offering important new contributions to Hume scholarship, this book also surveys and assesses the new research responsible for the recent sea-change in thinking about Hume. It offers an accessible overview of these developments while suggesting significant revisions to current readings of Hume's philosophy.
Hume S Theory Of Causation
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Author : Angela M. Coventry
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2006-06-08
Hume S Theory Of Causation written by Angela M. Coventry and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-06-08 with Philosophy categories.
Causation has always been a central topic in the history of philosophy. Many theories causation have been advanced, but not one has approached anything like general acceptance. Yet the concept of causation is prevalent in many areas of contemporary philosophy: there are the causal theories of language, of action, of personal identity, of knowledge, of perception, of scientific explanation, and of reference. If causation is doing all this philosophical work, it seems essential to strive for an intelligible account of what a 'cause' actually is. One obvious place to start is Hume's analysis of causation, which is generally thought to be the most significant and influential single contribution to the topic. But despite the widely recognized importance of his analysis, many opposing interpretations surround his causal theory. There are some commentators who believe that his theory is a version of realism and many others who argue that it is a version of anti-realism. There is considerable textual evidence for, and also against, each interpretation. Angela Coventry develops a more conciliatory approach. She argues that Hume's causal theory is best understood as 'quasi-realist' - an intermediate position between realism and anti-realism. This makes sense of some seemingly contradictory passages in Hume's work and also provides an answer to a major objection which is commonly thought to devastate his causal theory. Coventry then goes on to outline a general, topic-independent, conception of quasi-realism as distinct from realistm and anti-realism that allows it to stand as a consistent third alternative.
Hume On Causation
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Author : Helen Beebee
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2006-09-27
Hume On Causation written by Helen Beebee and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-09-27 with Education categories.
Causation is one of the most important and enduring topics in philosophy, going back to Aristotle. In this important book, Helen Beebee covers all the major debates and issues in the philosophy of causation.
Hume S Epistemology In The Treatise
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Author : Frederick F. Schmitt
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2014-01-30
Hume S Epistemology In The Treatise written by Frederick F. Schmitt and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-01-30 with Philosophy categories.
Frederick F. Schmitt offers a systematic interpretation of David Hume's epistemology, as it is presented in the indispensable A Treatise of Human Nature. Hume's text alternately manifests scepticism, empiricism, and naturalism in epistemology. Interpretations of his epistemology have tended to emphasise one of these apparently conflicting positions over the others. But Schmitt argues that the positions can be reconciled by tracing them to a single underlying epistemology of knowledge and probability quietly at work in the text, an epistemology according to which truth is the chief cognitive merit of a belief, and knowledge and probable belief are species of reliable belief. Hume adopts Locke's dichotomy between knowledge and probability and reassigns causal inference from its traditional place in knowledge to the domain of probability—his most significant departure from earlier accounts of cognition. This shift of causal inference to an associative and imaginative operation raises doubts about the merit of causal inference, suggesting the counterintuitive consequence that causal inference is wholly inferior to knowledge-producing demonstration. To defend his associationist psychology of causal inference from this suggestion, Hume must favourably compare causal inference with demonstration in a manner compatible with associationism. He does this by finding an epistemic status shared by demonstrative knowledge and causally inferred beliefs—the status of justified belief. On the interpretation developed here, he identifies knowledge with infallible belief and justified belief with reliable belief, i.e., belief produced by truth-conducive belief-forming operations. Since infallibility implies reliable belief, knowledge implies justified belief. He then argues that causally inferred beliefs are reliable, so share this status with knowledge. Indeed Hume assumes that causally inferred beliefs enjoy this status in his very argument for associationism. On the reliability interpretation, Hume's accounts of knowledge and justified belief are part of a broader veritistic epistemology making true belief the chief epistemic value and goal of science. The veritistic interpretation advanced here contrasts with interpretations on which the chief epistemic value of belief is its empirical adequacy, stability, or fulfilment of a natural function, as well as with the suggestion that the chief value of belief is its utility for common life. Veritistic interpretations are offered of the natural function of belief, the rules of causal inference, scepticism about body and matter, and the criteria of justification. As Schmitt shows, there is much attention to Hume's sources in Locke and to the complexities of his epistemic vocabulary.
The External World And Our Knowledge Of It
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Author : Fred Wilson
language : en
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Release Date : 2008-01-01
The External World And Our Knowledge Of It written by Fred Wilson and has been published by University of Toronto Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-01-01 with Philosophy categories.
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.
The Secret Connexion
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Author : Galen Strawson
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 1989
The Secret Connexion written by Galen Strawson and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with Philosophy categories.
The "regularity" theory of causation is often regarded as one of Hume's greatest contributions to philosophy. Arguing that the theory is indefensible, Strawson maintains that such a claim about nature would have been utterly contrary to Hume's fundamental philosophical principles, and that he never adopted it in any case.
