Hume's Epistemological Evolution
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-006629-1 (ISBN)
Hsueh M. Qu provides here a new interpretation of Hume's epistemology, addressing these perennial and central questions of Hume scholarship, and showing them as intimately related. He argues that the Enquiry indeed differs from the Treatise because Hume changes his response to skepticism between the two works. With this understanding, Qu clarifies a host of enduring questions about the works. Because the Treatise has as its primary focus the psychological naturalistic project, its treatment of epistemological issues is helter-skelter, arising unsystematically from the results of the central psychological investigation. Consequently, Hume finds himself forced into a response to skepticism founded on the Title Principle. However, this response is deeply problematic, as Hume himself seems to recognize. In contrast to the Treatise, the Enquiry emphasizes the epistemological aspects of Hume's project, and offers a radically different and more sophisticated epistemology that takes the form of an internalist reliabilism.
Hume's Epistemological Evolution establishes the Enquiry as far more than a watered-down version of the Treatise, and as a worthy object of philosophical study in its own right. Qu offers a broader, master narrative encompassing both the Treatise and the Enquiry that stakes out a narrative of evolution across the two works--a narrative that explains some of the most central interpretive questions in Hume scholarship.
Hsueh M. Qu is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the National University of Singapore. His research interests are primarily in Hume scholarship and in early modern philosophy more broadly. He has published in journals such as Nous, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Mind, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, and Philosophical Studies.
Abbreviations
Chapter 1: The Relation between the Treatise and the Enquiry
Chapter 2: Hume's Aims
Chapter 3: Hume's Negative Argument on Induction
Chapter 4: Hume's Positive Argument on Induction
Chapter 5: The Scepticism of Book 1 Part 4
Chapter 6: The Title Principle and THN 1.4.7
Chapter 7: A Flawed Framework
Chapter 8: Critical Self-Reflection
Chapter 9: A New Epistemology
Chapter 10: A Change for the Better
Bibliography
| Erscheinungsdatum | 30.12.2019 |
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| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 236 x 163 mm |
| Gewicht | 590 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Geschichte der Philosophie |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit | |
| Sozialwissenschaften | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-19-006629-6 / 0190066296 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-006629-1 / 9780190066291 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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