Hume’s Science of Human Nature

Scientific Realism, Reason, and Substantial Explanation

David Landy (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

266 Seiten

2017
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-50313-7 (ISBN)

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Hume’s Science of Human Nature is an investigation of the philosophical commitments underlying Hume's methodology in pursuing what he calls ‘the science of human nature’. It argues that Hume understands scientific explanation as aiming at explaining the inductively-established universal regularities discovered in experience via an appeal to the nature of the substance underlying manifest phenomena. For years, scholars have taken Hume to employ a deliberately shallow and demonstrably untenable notion of scientific explanation. By contrast, Hume’s Science of Human Nature sets out to update our understanding of Hume’s methodology by using a more sophisticated picture of science as a model.

David Landy is Associate Professor of Philosophy at San Francisco State University. He is the author of Kant’s Inferentialism: The Case Against Hume (Routledge, 2015).

Introduction

Chapter 1: Two Case Studies: The Impression-Idea and Simple-Complex Distinctions

Chapter 2: Hume’s Scientific Realism

Chapter 3: The Course of Science: Substance, Language, and Reason

Chapter 4: The Science of Body

Chapter 5: Necessary Connection and Substantial Explanation

Chapter 6: Explanation and Personal Identity in the Appendix

Erscheinungsdatum	28.09.2017
Reihe/Serie	Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Philosophy
Zusatzinfo	1 Tables, black and white; 2 Halftones, black and white; 3 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	670 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Geschichte der Philosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
	Naturwissenschaften
ISBN-10	1-138-50313-4 / 1138503134
ISBN-13	978-1-138-50313-7 / 9781138503137
Zustand	Neuware