The External World and Our Knowledge of It : : Hume's Critical Realism, an Exposition and a Defence /

The External World and Our Knowledge of It : : Hume's Critical Realism, an Exposition and a Defence / / Fred Wilson.

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David Hume is often considered to have been a sceptic, particularly in his conception of the individual's knowledge of the external world. However, a closer examination of his works gives a much different impression of this aspect of Hume's philosophy, one that is due for a thorough schola...

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Wilson, Fred,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]
©2008
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Note on References
  • Introduction
  • 1. Abstract Ideas and Other Linguistic Rules in Hume
  • 2. The Waning of Scientia
  • 3. Geometry as Scientia and as Applied Science: Hume's Empiricist Account of Geometry
  • 4. Hume's Defence of Empirical Science
  • 5. Hume on Testimony and Its Epistemological Problems
  • 6. Knowledge
  • 7. Naturalism and Scepticism
  • 8. Hume's Critical Realism
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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