Hume's Enquiry

Expanded and Explained
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-138-50452-3
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 376 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 547 g

Hume’s Enquiry: Expanded and Explained includes the entire classical text of David Hume’s An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding in bold font, a running commentary blended seamlessly into the text in regular font, and analytic summaries of each section. The commentary is like a professor on hand to guide the reader through every line of the daunting prose and every move in the intricate argumentation. The unique design helps students learn how to read and engage with one of modern philosophy’s most important and exciting classics.

Key Features:

- Includes the entire original text.

- Provides helpful summaries of each paragraph.

- Offers commentary on every line of text.

- Removes the gap between commentary and text.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hume, David

Stapleford, Scott

Goldschmidt, Tyron

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Antike Philosophie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Wissensmanagement

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introductory Note An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding Section 1: Of the different species of philosophy Section 2: Of the origin of ideas Section 3: Of the association of ideas Section 4: Sceptical doubts concerning the operations of the understanding Section 5: Sceptical solutions of these doubtsm Section 6: Of probability Section 7: Of the idea of necessary connection Section 8: Of Liberty and Necessity Section 9: Of The Reason of Animals Section 10: Of Miracles Section 11: Of a Particular Providence and a Future State Section 12: Of the Academical or Sceptical Philosophy

Über Autor(innen)

Scott Stapleford is Professor of Philosophy at St. Thomas University, Fredericton. He is the author of Kant’s Transcendental Arguments: Disciplining Pure Reason (2008), coauthor of Berkeley’s Principles: Expanded and Explained (2016, with Tyron Goldschmidt), coauthor of Logic Works: A Rigorous Introduction to Formal Logic (2021, with Lorne Falkenstein and Molly Kao), coeditor of Epistemic Duties: New Arguments, New Angles (2020, with Kevin McCain), and series editor (with Kevin McCain) of Routledge Studies in Epistemology.

Tyron Goldschmidt is Fellow of the Rutgers Center for the Philosophy of Religion. He is the author of various books, including Ontological Arguments (2020), editor of various volumes, including Nonbeing: New Essays on the Metaphysics of Nonexistence (2021, with Sara Bernstein), and has articles in various academic journals, including the Journal of the American Philosophical Association and Philosophers’ Imprint.