Custom and reason in Hume : a Kantian reading of the first book of the Treatise

Custom and reason in Hume : a Kantian reading of the first book of the Treatise / Henry E. Allison.

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...

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Main Author: Allison, Henry E.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : New York : Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, 2008.
Subjects:
Hume, David, > 1711-1776. > Treatise of human nature.
Kant, Immanuel, > 1724-1804.
Kant, Immanuel, > 1724-1804
Treatise of human nature (Hume, David)
Knowledge, Theory of.
epistemology.
PHILOSOPHY > Movements > Humanism.
Knowledge, Theory of
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Table of Contents:
  • Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Hume's Elements; 2. Hume's Theory of Space and Time; 3. Hume's Epistemological Divide in the Treatise; 4. 'Whatever Begins to Exist Must Have a Cause of Existence': Hume's Analysis and Kant's Response; 5. Hume's Analysis of Inductive Inference; Appendix: Does Reason Beg or Command? Kant and Hume on Induction and the Uniformity of Nature; 6. Simple Conception, Existence, and Belief: Hume's Analysis and the Kantian Response; 7. Causation, Necessary Connection, and Power; 8. Hume on Skepticism Regarding Reason; 9. Hume on Skepticism Regarding the Senses.

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