Flage. David Hume's Theory of Mind. New York: Routledge, 199o. Pp. ix + 197. Cloth $65.oo. This book sets out to solve one of the puzzles which have been so much a part of Hume scholarship, viz., Wh...
The 18th century writer, David Hume, is one of the world's great philosophical voices because he hit upon a key fact about human nature - that we are more influenced by our feelings than by reason. This is, at one level, possibly a great insult to our self image, but Hume thought th...
In summary, Hume's critiques of the existence of God and the concept of self-existence reflect his commitment to empiricism and skepticism. He sought to ground beliefs in sensory experience and questioned metaphysical concepts that could not be verified through empirical observation. These aspects of...
Hume's Problem of Causationhas remained unsolved for 250 years (NeitherKantnorPopperpositively solved it!) and this lack of certainty, at the very heart of Human Scientific Knowledge, has greatly prejudiced our belief in the possibility of Metaphysics and the certainty of Science, and has ultimate...
The chief aim of this book is to elaborate a theory of the individuation of continuants, including living substances and other substances. Such a theory ought to comprise at least three things: an elucidation first of the primitive concept of identity or sameness; second, some account of what...
Audrey Ceschia, editor of Lancet Public Health that he simply did not understand the contemporary concept of Editor-Based-Medicine. “These kinds of epidemiological studies with such low relative risk values are, of course, meaningless,” Feinman said. The relative risk for “low-carb” vs. ...
The related phenomena demonstrated by many, many studies of “ego depletion” are real, and important, and I personally have no doubt whatsoever about that. When people are tired, including psychologically tired (an interesting concept in its own right), their self-control abilities wane, prepoten...
new concept of that experience. She can think about it from the inside, as it were, at first hand. And she can do that because she's now had the experience. Let me give you a kind of very crude psychological model of what might be going on so as to make it clear how the story...
The concept of the random controlled trial (RCT), obvious to us now, was hard won and, proving that any particular environmental factor — diet, smoking, pollution or toxic chemicals was the cause of a disease and that, by reducing that factor, the disease could be prevented, turned out ...
“No. The answer is adventure, and myself.” Reluctant to inform Safta of my prospective itinerary along the outlets of the Nile, I delayed conveying the news to her as long as possible. Some scruple prevented me from withholding the truth indefinitely, though. I wasn’t surprised by her ...