Hume's Imagination

Mary Elizabeth Banwart (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

179 Seiten

1994
Peter Lang Publishing Inc (Verlag)
978-0-8204-2356-2 (ISBN)

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Hume's Treatise of Human Understanding (1739-1740) was published in the midst of a century of dramatic literary, political, and moral change. Banwart argues that interpreters of the Treatise have focused too exclusively on the causal influence of constantly conjoined experience on the imagination. When causality is restored to its social context, we can see that imagination is influenced not just by regularity but also by familiarity, by the contiguity and resemblance of other people. Our ability to see a resemblance is more basic than our ability to make habitual associations. It affects and is affected by those who teach us to attend to experience in particular ways. Acknowledgement of the social origin of ideas calls us to be more responsible for correcting our beliefs and for maintaining genuine conversation with our community.

The Author: Mary Banwart earned her Ph.D. in Philosophy from The Claremont Graduate School in 1992. Her dissertation was nominated for the University Microfilm International Distinguished Dissertation Award. In 1993 Dr. Banwart was invited to join the Citizen Ambassador Program's Philosophy Education Delegation to the People's Republic of China. She has taught philosophy at the University of Redlands.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.8.1994
Reihe/Serie	Studies in European Thought ; 8
Sprache	englisch
Maße	160 x 230 mm
Gewicht	460 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie des Mittelalters
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Volkskunde
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Bildungstheorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-8204-2356-4 / 0820423564
ISBN-13	978-0-8204-2356-2 / 9780820423562
Zustand	Neuware