David Hume and the culture of Scottish Newtonianism : : methodology and ideology in Enlightenment inquiry / / by Tamas Demeter.
David Hume has a canonical place in the context of moral philosophy, but his insights are less frequently discussed in relation to natural philosophy. David Hume and the Culture of Scottish Newtonianism offers a discussion of Hume’s methodological and ideological commitments in matters of knowledge...
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| Superior document: | Brill's Studies in Intellectual History, volume 259 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Boston : : Brill,, [2016] ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Brill's studies in intellectual history ;
v. 259. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (233 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- Introduction
- 1 The Conceptual Unity of Scottish Newtonianism
- 2 The Methodological Unity of Scottish Newtonianism
- 3 Hume’s Copernican Turn
- 4 Newton’s Method and Hume’s Science of Man
- 5 Hume and the Changing Ideology of Natural Inquiry
- 6 Hume’s Experimental Method
- 7 A Chemistry of Perceptions
- 8 An Anatomy and Physiology of Mind
- 9 Three Perspectives on Human Action
- 10 The Objectivity of Moral Cognition and Philosophy
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Subject Index
- Name Index.