The Blackwell Guide to Hume's Treatise - Couverture souple

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ISBN 10 : 1405115092 ISBN 13 : 9781405115094

Editeur : Wiley-Blackwell, 2005

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Revue de presse :

The Blackwell Guide to Hume s Treatise is a very welcome arrival, an antidote to the selective attention from which the Treatise has often suffered. The contributors set out and assess Hume s main doctrines and arguments across the whole Treatise, bringing out links between its different parts, and situating the work in its biographical and philosophical context. The result is an excellent introduction to one of the major works of western philosophy. Stephen Buckle, Australian Catholic University

This is an excellent addition to an excellent series. Saul Traiger has solicited an impressive collection of original essays covering all the parts of Hume s most important, but also most baffling, work. The authors include most of the world s leading Hume scholars. Their work is authoritative, but is also very clearly presented, so that the volume will be accessible to college students as well useful for expert philosophers. Highly recommended! Vere Chappell, University of Massachusetts

Quatrième de couverture :

David Hume s A Treatise of Human Nature is one of the most important works of modern philosophy. This Guide provides students with the scholarly and interpretive tools needed to begin mining Hume s Treatise for philosophical insight.

The Guide contains fifteen newly written chapters by leading Hume scholars. Each chapter guides the reader through a selected portion of the Treatise, explaining the central arguments, as well as key contemporary interpretations of those arguments. They cover such topics as: the formulation, reception, and scope of the Treatise; the theory of impressions and ideas; imagination and memory; space and time; causation and causal inference; the passions; Hume s treatment of belief in the external world and the self; the moral sentiments and their relation to reason; and the role of sympathy.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Wiley-Blackwell
• Date d'édition: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1405115092
• ISBN 13: 9781405115094
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 320