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Hume approaches topics in metaphysics and epistemology via his theory of ideas and the cognitive faculties. In metaphysics, his primary interest is in questions not of the form ‘What is X?’ but of the form ‘What can we conceive X to be?’ His best-known contribution is his argument that causation, as far as we can conceive it, is just regular succession among objects or events, plus our habit of inferring one object or event from another. He also made important contributions concerning space and time, existence, identity, substances, and free will. In epistemology, his primary interest is in questions of the form ‘Which of our cognitive faculties is responsible for our belief in X?’ His best-known contribution is his argument that habit, not reason, engages us to suppose that unobserved events will resemble observed ones (a view concerning what philosophers now call induction). He also made important contributions concerning the distinction between the a priori and the a posteriori, belief in the external world, and religious belief.

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Books that discuss Hume's views about a range of topics in metaphysics and epistemology (construed broadly, so as to include philosophy of mind, action and language) include Stroud 1977Garrett 1996 and Allison 2008Fogelin 1985 and Loeb 2002 are devoted to his epistemology. For three different approaches to his theory of causation, see Blackburn 1990, Kail 2007 and Millican 2009. For two different approaches to his argument about induction, see Owen 1999 and Peter Millican's article 'Hume's Sceptical Doubts Concerning Induction,' in Millican 2001.

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Three introductory books that take quite different approaches to Hume's metaphysics and epistemology are Ayer 1980Blackburn 2008 and Wright 2009Norton & Taylor 1993 contains helpful introductory articles on Hume's views about several topics in metaphysics and epistemology.

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  1. Hume's Empiricist Dualistic Model. 백승환 - 2024 - Modern Philosophy 24:213-253.
    필자는 이 글에서 서양근대 경험주의 사유를 체계적으로 집성한 철학자로 평가받는 흄이 그의 철학 체계 내에 수용하는 이원주의 모델이 무엇인지 검토한다. 일단 논의는 첫째, 사실상 흄의 이원론적 사유가 전통적 구도를 취하지 않는다는 것을 보인다. 인간학의 기조에 들어맞게 곧 대안으로 오히려 구도가 취해지게 된다는 사실이 강조될 것이다. 다음으로, 둘째, 공간성을 바로 지각들의 내적-외적 이원화를 위한 척도로 흄이 제시하는 것이라고 주장한다. 지각들 중에서도 공간성을 규명하는 시도에 부합하는 것으로 시각과 촉각이 실제로 언급되는 상황에 필자는 무엇보다 주목할 것이다. 마지막 셋째 논의는, 지각들의 체계적 이원화에 이르는 (...)
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  2. Hume on the Self and Personal Identity ed. by Dan O’Brien (review).Bridger Ehli - 2024 - Hume Studies 49 (2):377-380.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Reviewed by:Hume on the Self and Personal Identity ed. by Dan O’BrienBridger EhliDan O’Brien, ed. Hume on the Self and Personal Identity. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. Pp. xxiv + 321. Softcover. ISBN: 9783031042751. $129.99This is an engaging collection of essays on a central topic in Hume’s philosophy. Perhaps Hume’s best-known contribution to the philosophy of the self is his denial, in section 1.4.6 of the Treatise, “Of personal identity,” (...)
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  3. Hume Entre o Ceticismo e o Naturalismo.Donizeti Aparecido Pugin Souza - 2013 - Kínesis - Revista de Estudos Dos Pós-Graduandos Em Filosofia 5 (9):62-77.
    Na corrente empirista, David Hume apresenta o caráter cognoscitivo do homem como essencial à compreensão de sua natureza. Distinguindo as percepções em Impressões e Ideias, inicia um complexo sistema epistêmico que culminará nos princípios associativos da mente humana. Um desses princípios, a causalidade, é a responsável pela formação de crenças no homem, devido à influência estabelecida pelo hábito ou costume. Nessa perspectiva, nossas crenças relacionadas à relação de causalidade entre dois objetos não passam de associações mentais, não possíveis de certeza (...)
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  4. Hume e Leibniz: Entre o Inatismo e o Empirismo.Suzane da Silva Araújo - 2012 - Kínesis - Revista de Estudos Dos Pós-Graduandos Em Filosofia 4 (7):245-253.
    Nosso texto busca fazer uma análise das hipóteses levantadas, para as explicações acerca da origem das ideias e de suas conexões, pelo filósofo David Hume (um dos principais representantes da corrente de pensamento empirista na modernidade), e, Gottfried Leibniz, que, junto com Descartes, apresenta, em suas obras, as principais teorias da corrente de pensamento racionalista. Para isso, encontramos a base de nossa proposta na Investigação sobre o entendimento humano, de Hume, e nos Novos ensaios sobre o entendimento humano, de Leibniz. (...)
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  5. (1 other version)Historical dictionary of Hume's philosophy.Angela Michelle Coventry - 2018 - Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield. Edited by Kenneth R. Merrill.
    This second edition of Historical Dictionary of Hume's Philosophy contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 100 cross-referenced entries covering key terms, as well as brief discussions of Hume's major works and of some of his most important predecessors, contemporaries, and successors.
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  6. (6 other versions)A treatise of human nature.David Hume - 2022 - Peterborough, Ontario, Canada: Broadview Press. Edited by Angela Michelle Coventry.
  7. (1 other version)Empirisme et subjectivité.Gilles Deleuze - 1953 - Paris,: Presses universitaires de France.
  8. David Hume on the Thesis of the Transparency of the Phenomena of Consciousness.Vinícius França Freitas & Carlota Salgadinho Ferreira - 2024 - Análisis Filosófico 44 (2):245-274.
    This article puts forward two hypotheses about David Hume’s position on the epistemic status of consciousness. Firstly, it is argued that Hume does not offer any explicit argument in favor of the thesis that the mind cannot be mistaken about a mental state of which it is conscious, and some possible interpretations that could offer this argument are questioned. Secondly, it is argued that Hume is committed to the thesis that the mind is conscious of all its mental phenomena as (...)
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  9. In Hume’s Theory, the Constructed Subject and the Problem of Subjectivation. 박대윤 - 2024 - Journal of Korean Philosophical Society 171:167-191.
    흄에게 있어서 주체와 주체화의 문제는 자신이 주장하려고 하는 것보다 더 큰 의미를 가진다. 우리는 흄이 주장하는 주체성에서 근대를 넘어서는 사유, 현대적 주체성에 대한 관점의 선취를 본다. 그것은 주체가 주어진 것 안에서 구성된다는 것, 이 수동성이야말로 주체를 이해하는 중요한 요소이다. 우리는 마르크스나 정신분석학이 소화된 푸코나 들뢰즈와 같은 철학, 즉 현대적 주체성을 그려 보여주는 철학의 시원적 지점으로서 흄의 철학을 참고할 필요가 있다. 따라서 이 글은 흄의 주체화의 문제를 수동성의 맥락 안에서 다룬다. 이러한 흄의 주체성은 근대적 특성을 닮고 있으면서도 근대성을 넘어서는 사유의 지평을 (...)
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  10. Hume and Julius Caesar.Elizabeth Anscombe - 1973 - Analysis 34 (1):1–7.
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  11. (1 other version)Reason and conduct in Hume and his predecessors.Stanley Tweyman - 1974 - The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff.
    Can reason play a significant role in making moral distinctions and in generating moral precepts? In this book I attempt to provide Hume's answers to these questions in the light of his employment of the 'Experimen tal Method', his doctrine of perceptions, and his analysis of reason. In addition to this, attention is paid to some of Hume's rationalist predeces sors - most notably, Samuel Clarke and William Wollaston - in order to assess Hume's critique of the rationalists. Regarding the (...)
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  12. (1 other version)The secret connexion: causation, realism, and David Hume.Galen Strawson - 2014 - Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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  13. Skepticism and the Idea of Body in Hume.Bridger Ehli - forthcoming - Journal of the History of Philosophy.
    In section 1.4.4 of the Treatise, “Of the modern philosophy,” Hume offers a skeptical argument concerning the distinction between primary and secondary qualities. The argument in that section is often understood to aim to undermine the modern philosophy’s account of body, according to which bodies lack paradigmatic secondary qualities, by showing that it has “extravagant” skeptical consequences. I argue that Hume does not reject the core commitments of the modern philosophy. His aim in T 1.4.4 is not to undermine any (...)
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  14. Sextus, Montaigne, Hume: Pyrrhonizers by Brian C. Ribeiro (review).Donald C. Ainslie - 2024 - Journal of the History of Philosophy 62 (3):517-518.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by Sextus, Montaigne, Hume: Pyrrhonizers by Brian C. Ribeiro Donald C. Ainslie Brian C. Ribeiro. Sextus, Montaigne, Hume: Pyrrhonizers. Brill: Leiden, 2021. Pp. 165. Hardback, $154.00. Brian C. Ribeiro’s Sextus, Montaigne, Hume: Pyrrhonizers is a charming and quirky investigation of his three titular skeptics. It is perhaps best understood as a skeptical investigation of skepticism. By that I mean that, like a good Pyrrhonist, Ribeiro explains how (...)
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  15. The Advancement of Naturalized Epistemology: Reflections on Hume, Quine and Anderson.Angela M. Coventry - 2024 - In Scott Stapleford & Verena Wagner (eds.), Hume and contemporary epistemology. New York, NY: Routledge. pp. 221-240.
    Focusing on the topics of empiricism, naturalism, imagination, and social relations, the paper examines the ways in which Quine and Anderson’s projects in naturalized epistemology may be understood as successors to Hume’s epistemological framework. The paper concludes with some remarks on the normative side of naturalized epistemology to show that situating these thinkers together may illuminate one of the more controversial aspects of Hume’s philosophy to do with naturalism and skepticism.
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  16. Humean Skepticism and Entitlement.Santiago Echeverri - 2024 - In Scott Stapleford & Verena Wagner (eds.), Hume and contemporary epistemology. New York, NY: Routledge. pp. 183-205.
    Many philosophers have found in Hume’s skeptical doubts concerning the operations of the understanding the materials for an argument that generalizes from induction to other domains, like our beliefs in the external world, other minds, and the past. This chapter offers a novel reconstruction of that argument and identifies the principles that are responsible for its capacity to generalize beyond induction. Next, it presents a classical reading of Hume’s skeptical solution and shows that Crispin Wright’s entitlement theory is close in (...)
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  17. The Oxford Handbook of David Hume.Paul Russell (ed.) - 2016 - Oxford: Oxford University Press.
    The Scottish philosopher David Hume (1711-1776) is widely regarded as the greatest and most significant English-speaking philosopher and often seen as having had the most influence on the way philosophy is practiced today in the West. His reputation is based not only on the quality of his philosophical thought but also on the breadth and scope of his writings, which ranged over metaphysics, epistemology, morals, politics, religion, and aesthetics. The Handbook's 38 newly commissioned chapters are divided into six parts: Central (...)
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  18. David Hume: Critical Assessments (vol. II).Peter Millican (ed.) - 1995 - Routledge.
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  19. Imagining the Unseen: The External World of Hume’s Treatise.Angela M. Coventry - forthcoming - In Elizabeth S. Radcliffe (ed.), Hume's _A Treatise of Human Nature_: A Critical Guide. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
    This paper provides a brief history of some critical responses and expansions of Hume on external objects, with a particular emphasis on the relevance of developmental psychology.
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  20. (1 other version)Hume's A Treatise of Human Nature: A Critical Guide.Elizabeth S. Radcliffe (ed.) - forthcoming - Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
    This collection contains fourteen critical essays on Hume's *A Treatise of Human Nature*, plus an Introduction: 1 The Association of Ideas in Hume’s Treatise (John P. Wright), 2 Methodizing Hume’s Metaphysics (Donald L. M. Baxter), 3 Hume on Belief (Jennifer Smalligan Marǔsić), 4 “All the Logic I think Proper to Employ”: Hume’s Rules by which to Judge of Causes and Effects (Hsueh Qu), 5 Imagining the Unseen: The External World of Hume’s Treatise (Angela Coventry), 6 The Updating Problem for Hume’s (...)
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  21. Empirisme transcendantal et subjectivité: la notion de sujet dans les monographies de Deleuze sur Hume, Kant, Nietzsche et Bergson.Julie van der Wielen - 2023 - Paris: Hermann.
    L'empirisme transcendantal élaboré par Gilles Deleuze n'est pas le fruit du hasard : il résulte de lectures critiques et d'un véritable remaniement de concepts, notamment dans ses monographies des années cinquante et soixante. Or on lit généralement les œuvres de maturité de Deleuze sans trop s'attarder sur ces premiers écrits. De même, la question de la subjectivité dans son œuvre est souvent laissée au second plan, et l'on constate dans la littérature secondaire des opinions diamétralement opposées quant au statut du (...)
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  22. De Bayle à Hume: tolérance, hypothèses, systèmes.Gianni Paganini - 2023 - Paris: Honoré Champion éditeur.
    Ce livre naît de la conviction qu'il est impossible de saisir le sens de la philosophie de Pierre Bayle sans la mettre en contexte dans les grands débats du siècle. Dans cette perspective, le scepticisme n'était pas pour lui incompatible avec le rationalisme, si l'on entend le premier comme raison critique exigeante et le second comme recherche qui fait éclater tout dogmatisme. C'est la notion et la méthode d'hypothèse qui gagnent du terrain, en fondant la tolérance et annonçant la polémique (...)
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  23. Hume's relation to Malebranche..Carll Whitman Doxsee - 1916 - [Boston,:
  24. A Reconciliation between Liberty and Necessity : The connection of morality, responsibility, and liberty in Hume`s philosophy.최성민 ) - 2019 - Modern Philosophy 13:49-73.
  25. Hume’s Theory of Ideas - New Hume vs. Old Hume.양선이 ) - 2019 - Modern Philosophy 13:5-47.
    이 논문에서 나는 흄의 관념이론을 검토한다. 그렇게 하는 과정에서 우리는 흄이 『인성론』의 여러 장에서 ‘관념’이라는 말을 사용하고 있음을 알게 되고 흄의 ‘관념’에 관해 여러 가지 방식의 해석이 존재함을 알게 된다. 우선 우리는 표준적 해석으로서 관념을 ‘이미지(image)’로 보는 입장을 검토한다. 두 번째 해석은 관념을 ‘작용(act)’으로 보는 것이고, 세 번째 해석은 관념을 ‘대상(object)’으로 보는 것이다. 그리고 네 번째 해석은 관념을 ‘뇌의 인상(brain impression)’으로 보는 것이다. 네 번째 해석과 관련하여 몇몇의 주석가들은 흄이 지각을 표상이라고 설명하는 방식을 다루는데 있어서 신경생리학적 개념을 사용한 것에 주목한다.나는 (...)
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  26. Can We Know Whether Scepticism Is Right or Wrong? Reid's Criticisms and Hume's Answer.Claire Etchegaray - unknown
  27. Husserl e Hume.Guilherme Felipe Carvalho - 2023 - Revista Estudos Hum(E)Anos 11 (1):74-83.
    A tradução a seguir tem como pretensão demonstrar o modo como Gaston Berger (1896-1960) em seu texto Husserl et Hume, promove uma articulação entre a fenomenologia de Edmund Husserl e o empirismo de David Hume. No texto, o autor apresenta a maneira como a fenomenologia ao valorizar a experiência (tendo-a como imprescindível) se aproxima da filosofia de Hume, e ao tratá-la como insuficiente por si mesma, acaba por estabelecer uma estreita relação com o idealismo transcendental kantiano. O fato é que (...)
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  28. British Empiricism.Peter West & Manuel Fasko - 2024 - Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
    ‘British Empiricism’ is a name traditionally used to pick out a group of eighteenth-century thinkers who prioritised knowledge via the senses over reason or the intellect and who denied the existence of innate ideas. The name includes most notably John Locke, George Berkeley, and David Hume. The counterpart to British Empiricism is traditionally considered to be Continental Rationalism that was advocated by Descartes, Spinoza, and Leibniz, all of whom lived in Continental Europe beyond the British Isles and all embraced innate (...)
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  29. Kantian Circularity: Maimon on Causal Scepticism and the Status of the Hypothetical Judgement.Emily Fitton - 2023 - Kantian Review 28 (4):597-613.
    A key theme throughout Maimon’s works is a circularity he diagnoses at the heart of Kant’s response to Hume. The objective validity of Kant’s category of causality ultimately rests, Maimon argues, upon the logical status of the hypothetical judgement – on its inclusion among the forms of pure general logic. In turn, however, the inclusion of the hypothetical within pure general logic itself rests upon the objective validity of causal judgements. This article examines Maimon’s diagnosis and traces it back to (...)
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  30. Catalina González Quintero, Academic Skepticism in Hume and Kant: A Ciceronian Critique of Metaphysics.Peter S. Fosl - 2023 - Journal of Scottish Philosophy 21 (3):307-312.
  31. Hume on Self and Sympathy.Dario Galvão - 2023 - Journal of Scottish Philosophy 21 (3):255-273.
    The paper seeks to contribute to the discussion of Hume's theory of personal identity, by examining a conflict regarding the vivacity of the self in his writings about sympathy. Although the mechanism of sympathy supposes that self is the liveliest perception of thought, when we consider sympathy through the perspective of the ‘desire of company’, we find that self lacks vivacity and, without alterity, it would be in reality nothing. Our objective is to present the conflict and show that, far (...)
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  32. L’histoire naturelle de la religion et les dialogues sur la religion naturelle.Alexandre Simon - 2009 - Philosophique 12:93-122.
    Si l'on s'en tient à la distinction qu'établit l'Introduction de L'histoire naturelle de la religion entre la question du fondement de la religion dans la raison et celle de son origine dans la nature humaine, on sera tenté d'attribuer à chacun des deux principaux textes de Hume sur la religion - L'histoire naturelle de la religion et les Dialogues sur la religion naturelle -un objet propre, déterminant un type de discours philosophique particulier. L'histoire naturelle développerait un discours causal, principalement généalogique, (...)
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  33. Traces of Hume in Sociology.Angela M. Coventry - 2024 - In Tamás Demeter (ed.), The Sociological Heritage of the Scottish Enlightenment. Edinburgh University Press. pp. 219-243.
    The aim of this paper is to bring the historical origins of sociology and Hume’s philosophy of society a bit closer together by examining some of the ways that Hume’s thought has influenced the directions of sociological thinking. I survey Humean traces in key figures in the field of sociology across the nineteenth to twenty-first centuries in Europe and the United States of America on the topics of positivism, economics, convention, custom and habit, religion, morality, and the self.
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  34. Der belief in Hume's kausalitätstheorie..Otto Quast - 1903 - Halle,: Druck von E. Karras.
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  35. LOCKE, BERKELEY VE HUME AÇISINDAN TÖZ SORUNU.Güdücü Fatma - 2022 - Dissertation, Pamukkale Üniversitesi
  36. A Comparative Study of the Epistemological Origin of Philosophical concepts from the perspective of Hume and Allameh Tabatabai.Zahra Hatami Nemati, Hossein Nowrouzi & Seyyed Ebrahim Aghazadeh - 2023 - Journal of Philosophical Investigations 17 (44):179-200.
    The review of the works and the writings of philosophers regarding the origin of philosophical concepts and the origin of the concepts and imaginations before it are indicative of the gradual and influenced formation and importance of this issue from a series of ideas in both the west and Islam. In the western world, the idea of innate ideas raised by rationalists and the rejection of the same idea by empiricists finally leads the Scottish philosopher Hume, who is evasive from (...)
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  37. (1 other version)Der psychologismus im englischen empirismus.Hans Pfeil - 1934 - Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh.
    Vorwort.--Einleitung.--Francis Bacon.--John Locke.--George Berkeley.--David Hume.
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  38. Modality: A History.Yitzhak Melamed & Samuel Newlands (eds.) - 2024 - New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
    Modality: A History provides readers a sweeping study of the history of philosophical work on modal concepts. Everyday discourse is saturated with appeals to what might be the case or to what must be true or to what cannot happen. Possibility, necessity, and impossibility are modal terms, and philosophers have long wondered how to best understand them. This volume traces the history of some of the most prominent and important contributions to our understanding of possibility and necessity over the past (...)
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  39. Fracaso y experiencia del límite. Naturalismo metodológico y crisis escéptica en el Tratado de D. Hume.Elena Yrigoyen Carpintero - 2023 - Contrastes: Revista Internacional de Filosofía 28 (3):9-23.
    ¿Qué significa "fracasar" para un naturalista metodológico? ¿Está éste abocado al escepticismo, y es este un fracaso? Para responder a estas preguntas, realizaré (1) un análisis de lo que se considera "naturalismo" en Hume, desde el que analizaré (2) la crisis escéptica narrada en la conclusión del Libro I del Tratado. Allí defenderé que la metafórica utilizada, engarzada con el concepto de fracaso, permite dos lecturas: una que une necesariamente naturalismo metodológico y escepticismo mitigado, y otra que no. No obstante, (...)
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  40. (1 other version)Reply to My Critics: Experience Embodied: Early Modern Accounts of the Human Place in Nature.Anik Waldow - 2023 - Hume Studies 48 (2):329-340.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Reply to My CriticsExperience Embodied: Early Modern Accounts of the Human Place in NatureAnik Waldow (bio)I would like to thank Dario Perinetti and Hynek Janoušek for their thoughtful comments and the time and effort they invested into my work. Their reflections drive attention to important questions and make helpful suggestions about how some of the arguments of the book can be further developed and clarified. In what follows, I (...)
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  41. Experience, Embodiment, and History: Remarks on Waldow’s Experience Embodied.Dario Perinetti - 2023 - Hume Studies 48 (2):319-328.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Experience, Embodiment, and History: Remarks on Waldow’s Experience EmbodiedDario Perinetti (bio)Anik Waldow’s Experience Embodied delves into what she calls the “early modern debate on the concept of experience.”1 In her rich and wide-ranging account, she shows how a group of key early modern philosophers dealt with a puzzle regarding the connection between the subjective and objective aspects of experience. The puzzle stems from the fact that experience reveals as (...)
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  42. Meanings of “Embodied Experience”: A Response to Anik Waldow’s Book.Hynek Janoušek - 2023 - Hume Studies 48 (2):305-317.
    The text first briefly summarizes the contents of Annik Waldow's book and then attempts to highlight the diverse meanings of the concept of bodily experience in eighteenth-century philosophy, especially in the philosophy of David Hume. After a brief distinction between subjective and objective bodily experience in Descartes, I point to six different meanings of this concept in David Hume's Treatise of Human Nature. One of these notions, the body as a center of reference, turns out to be important for interpreting (...)
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  43. Handeln und Erkennen: zur Kritik des Empirismus am Beispiel der Philosophie David Humes.Hans-Hermann Hoppe - 1976 - Bern: Herbert Lang.
    Ausgehend von einer Gegenüberstellung der erkenntnistheoretischen Grundpositionen des Empirismus und der Transzendentalphilosophie (Apriorismus) will der Autor am Beispiel der Probleme «Begriffsbildung» und «Kausalität» zeigen, wie sich klassische philosophische Kontroversen (Hume-Kant) unter Zuhilfenahme erkenntnistheoretisch relevanter biologisch-psychologischer Forschungsergebnisse (J. Piaget, K. Lorenz) lösen lassen.
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  44. Hume’s Imagination by Tito MAGRI (review).Don Garrett - 2023 - Review of Metaphysics 77 (1):156-158.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Hume’s Imagination by Tito MAGRI Don Garrett MAGRI, Tito. Hume’s Imagination. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. xiii + 494 pp. Cloth, $115.00In A Treatise of Human Nature, Hume defines “the imagination” in an inclusive sense as “the faculty, by which we form our fainter ideas”—that is, those that are not memories. In the narrower sense, it is “the same faculty, excluding only our demonstrative and probable (...)
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  45. (2 other versions)A treatise of human nature.David Hume - 2007 - In Elizabeth Schmidt Radcliffe, Richard McCarty, Fritz Allhoff & Anand Vaidya (eds.), Late modern philosophy: essential readings with commentary. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.
  46. Is imagining impossibilities impossible?William Bondi Knowles - forthcoming - Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy.
    According to what Hume termed an ‘establish’d maxim’, nothing absolutely impossible is imaginable. It has recently been claimed against this that given the ubiquity of stipulative imagination, where one imagines a proposition simply by adding it as a stipulation about the imagined situation, it seems that we can imagine any impossibility whatsoever, even plain contradictions: all we need to do is add them as stipulations. The aim of this article is both to defend Hume’s maxim against this objection and – (...)
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  47. O Ceticismo Quanto À Razão Em HUET e Hume.Wendel de Holanda Pereira Campelo - 2023 - Síntese Revista de Filosofia 50 (157):239.
    A despeito de ser bem menos conhecido atualmente, o problema do ceticismo quanto à razão foi um assunto bastante relevante entre os autores dos séculos XVII e XVIII, da mesma maneira que o ceticismo quanto ao mundo exterior. Nesse sentido, busco apresentar os impactos de Huet sobre a posição de Hume no que concerne ao ceticismo quanto à razão do Tratado da Natureza Humana, particularmente a partir da versão pirrônica elaborada por Huet do argumento cartesiano do “Deus enganador”. Assim, como (...)
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  48. Disciplinary Transformations in the Age of Newton: The Case of Metaphysics.Alan Gabbey - 2023 - In Wolfgang Lefèvre (ed.), Between Leibniz, Newton, and Kant: Philosophy and Science in the Eighteenth Century. Springer. pp. 3-25.
    The chapter emphasizes the complexity of the relations between philosophy and science in the eighteenth century, as they must be seen against the background that, in the early modern period, as in the preceding centuries, philosophy generally included physics or natural philosophy, mathematics, and metaphysics. Showing the variance in attitudes among Leibniz, Newton, and Locke on how to draw a line of division between metaphysics and physics with regard to a sample of topics, this chapter draws attention to the divergent (...)
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  49. (1 other version)Hume and the external world.Stefanie Rocknak - 2018 - In Angela Michelle Coventry & Alex Sager (eds.), _The Humean Mind_. New York: Routledge.
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  50. Vom Phänomenalen zum Gedanklichen: Studien zu David Humes Semantik, Begriffslehre und Metaphysik.Asher Jiang - 2020 - Paderborn: Brill Mentis.
    Dieses Buch untersucht Humes revolutionäre Theorie des begrifflichen Denkens.Das begriffliche Denken ist eine wichtige Tätigkeit des Geistes. Was genau geschieht im Geist, wenn wir diese Tätigkeit ausüben? Im Vergleich zu anderen Philosophen der Frühen Neuzeit hat Hume bei der Beantwortung dieser Frage eine grössere Schwierigkeit: Humesche Ideen sind (anders als bei Descartes und Locke) rein phänomenaler Natur. Sie sind geistige "Bildchen" ohne begriffliche Struktur. Wie soll das begriffliche Denken mit Hilfe derartiger Ideen möglich sein? Hume reagierte auf diese Herausforderung mit (...)
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