Custom and Reason in Hume: A Kantian Reading of the First Book of the Treatise - Couverture souple

Allison, Henry E.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0199592020 ISBN 13 : 9780199592029

Editeur : Oxford University Press, U.S.A., 2010

Synopsis

Henry Allison examines the central tenets of Hume's epistemology and cognitive psychology, as contained in the Treatise of Human Nature. Allison takes a distinctive two-level approach. On the one hand, he considers Hume's thought in its own terms and historical context. So considered, Hume is viewed as a naturalist, whose project in the first three parts of the first book of the Treatise is to provide an account of the operation of the understanding in which reason is subordinated to custom and other non-rational propensities. Scepticism arises in the fourth part as a form of metascepticism, directed not against first-order beliefs, but against philosophical attempts to ground these beliefs in the "space of reasons." On the other hand, Allison provides a critique of these tenets from a Kantian perspective. This involves a comparison of the two thinkers on a range of issues, including space and time, causation, existence, induction, and the self. In each case, the issue is seen to turn on a contrast between their underlying models of cognition. Hume is committed to a version of the perceptual model, according to which the paradigm of knowledge is a seeing with the "mind's eye" of the relation between mental contents. By contrast, Kant appeals to a discursive model in which the fundamental cognitive act is judgment, understood as the application of concepts to sensory data, Whereas regarded from the first point of view, Hume's account is deemed a major philosophical achievement, seen from the second it suffers from a failure to develop an adequate account of concepts and judgment.

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À propos de l'auteur

Henry E. Allison is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of California, San Diego, and Boston University

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Oxford University Press, U.S.A.
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0199592020
• ISBN 13: 9780199592029
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 412
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