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...
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...
Shepherd propounds a theory of mind with a fair claim to be better than Hume’s at explaining the sources of commonly held human beliefs about causal necessity due largely to her relational theory of sense perception. In comparison with Hume’s account, it incorporates a more sophisticated treat...
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...
(Postmodernism) of our currently troubled and confused times. It is a delight to readDavid Hume, who writes brilliantly - beautifully blending clarity, content and style. As his skills far exceed my own, I shall gladly limit myself to ordering and presenting his words and ideas, such that ...
When people are tired, including psychologically tired (an interesting concept in its own right), their self-control abilities wane, prepotent responses (such as emotional lashing out, simplistic thinking, overlearned habits, selfish impulses) tend to take over as conscious control weakens. Isn’t ...
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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 it is for something to be a substance or continuant that persists through change; third, an account of what it amounts to, practically...
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