The Place Of The Imagination In Hume S Epistemology
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The Place Of The Imagination In Hume S Epistemology
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Author : Richard H. Lineback
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1963
The Place Of The Imagination In Hume S Epistemology written by Richard H. Lineback and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1963 with Imagination categories.
Hume S Imagination Hb
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Author : MAGRI.
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2022
Hume S Imagination Hb written by MAGRI. and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022 with Imagination categories.
"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 blind spot 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 ideas, which complement our sensible, mental representation of objects. Our cognitive nature, 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"--
Imagination In Hume S Philosophy
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Author : Timothy M. Costelloe
language : en
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Release Date : 2017-08-04
Imagination In Hume S Philosophy written by Timothy M. Costelloe and has been published by Edinburgh University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-08-04 with Philosophy categories.
Explores the contemporary significance of Alfred North Whitehead's 1927 book Symbolism: Its Meaning and Effect
Hume S Theory Of Imagination
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Author : Jan Wilbanks
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2012-12-06
Hume S Theory Of Imagination written by Jan Wilbanks and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-12-06 with Philosophy categories.
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.
Hume S Imagination
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Author : Mary Banwart
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1992
Hume S Imagination written by Mary Banwart and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Imagination (Philosophy) categories.
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 Routledge Handbook Of Philosophy Of Imagination
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Author : Amy Kind
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-01-22
The Routledge Handbook Of Philosophy Of Imagination written by Amy Kind and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-01-22 with Philosophy categories.
Imagination occupies a central place in philosophy, going back to Aristotle. However, following a period of relative neglect there has been an explosion of interest in imagination in the past two decades as philosophers examine the role of imagination in debates about the mind and cognition, aesthetics and ethics, as well as epistemology, science and mathematics. This outstanding Handbook contains over thirty specially commissioned chapters by leading philosophers organised into six clear sections examining the most important aspects of the philosophy of imagination, including: Imagination in historical context: Aristotle, Descartes, Hume, Kant, Husserl, and Sartre What is imagination? The relation between imagination and mental imagery; imagination contrasted with perception, memory, and dreaming Imagination in aesthetics: imagination and our engagement with music, art, and fiction; the problems of fictional emotions and ‘imaginative resistance’ Imagination in philosophy of mind and cognitive science: imagination and creativity, the self, action, child development, and animal cognition Imagination in ethics and political philosophy, including the concept of 'moral imagination' and empathy Imagination in epistemology and philosophy of science, including learning, thought experiments, scientific modelling, and mathematics. The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Imagination is essential reading for students and researchers in philosophy of mind and psychology, aesthetics, and ethics. It will also be a valuable resource for those in related disciplines such as psychology and art.
An Examination Of The Role Of Imagination And Its Relation To Belief In Hume S Epistemology
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Author : John Harold Freyaldenhoven
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1970
An Examination Of The Role Of Imagination And Its Relation To Belief In Hume S Epistemology written by John Harold Freyaldenhoven and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1970 with categories.
The Imagination In Spinoza And Hume
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Author : Willard Clark Gore
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1902
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Projection And Realism In Hume S Philosophy
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Author : P. J. E. Kail
language : en
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Release Date : 2010-04-22
Projection And Realism In Hume S Philosophy written by P. J. E. Kail and has been published by Clarendon Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-04-22 with Philosophy categories.
In his writings, Hume talks of our 'gilding and staining' natural objects, and of the mind's propensity to 'spread itself' on the world. This has led commentators to use the metaphor of 'projection' in connection with his philosophy: Hume is held to have taught that causal power and self are projections, that God is a projection of our fear, and that value is a projection of sentiment. By considering what it is about Hume's writing that occasions this metaphor, P. J. E. Kail spells out its meaning, the role it plays in Hume's work, and examines how, if at all, what sounds 'projective' in Hume can be reconciled with what sounds 'realist'. In addition to offering some highly original readings of Hume's central ideas, Projection and Realism in Hume's Philosophy offers a detailed examination of the notion of projection and the problems it faces.