Hume on Animal Reason

Hume Studies 29 (1):3-28 (2003)
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In both the _Treatise and the first _Enquiry, Hume offers an argument from analogy comparing how humans and animals make causal inferences. Yet in these and other texts, he suggests that there are certain differences between human and animal reasoning. This paper discusses Hume's argument from analogy, and examines how Hume can argue for differences in human and animal reasoning without having to attribute to either a special capacity that the other lacks. Hume's empiricism and his claims about sympathy also give him good reason to hold that in animals just as in humans, reason is a virtue

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03197336

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10.1353/hms.2011.0106

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Deborah Boyle
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