Hume's Science of Human Nature
Scientific Realism, Reason, and Substantial Explanation
Published on 22. September 2017
278 pages
978-1-351-38325-7 (ISBN)
Description
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.
Reviews / Votes
"Hume's Science of Human Nature offers, and capably defends, a deeply original way of understanding Hume's theoretical framework. The interpretation renders Hume's naturalistic project a much more sophisticated endeavour than typically thought. It is an excellent and welcome addition to the literature."-Hsueh Qu, National University of Singapore"Landy does an outstanding job of highlighting the significance of some long-standing debates regarding Hume's theory of representation by showing how they affect important questions about Hume's account of scientific explanation and science in general."
-Miren Boehm, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
1 Tables, black and white; 2 Halftones, black and white; 3 Illustrations, black and white
File size
0,99 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-351-38325-7 (9781351383257)
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Person
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).
Content
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
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
