Traiger The Blackwell Guide to Hume's Treatise

1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-1-4051-5313-3
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 312 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Blackwell Guides to Great Works

This Guide provides students with the scholarly andinterpretive tools they need to understand Hume's ATreatise of Human Nature and its influence on modernphilosophy.
* * A student guide to Hume's A Treatise of HumanNature.
* Focuses on recent developments in Hume scholarship.
* Covers topics such as the formulation, reception and scope ofthe Treatise, imagination and memory, the passions, moralsentiments, and the role of sympathy.
* All the chapters are newly written by Hume scholars.
* Each chapter guides the reader through a portion of theTreatise, explaining the central arguments and keycontemporary interpretations of those arguments.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Traiger, Saul

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Notes on Contributors.
References to the Threatise, Abstract, and Enquiries.
Editor's Introduction.
Part I: Formulation, Reception and Scope of theTreatise:.
1. The Treatise: Composition, Reception and Response: JohnWright (Central Michigan University).
2. Hume's Other Writings:Wade Robison (Rochester Instituteof Technology).
Part II: The Understanding:.
3. Impressions and Ideas: Janet Broughton (University ofCalifornia, Berkeley).
4. Space and Time: Lorne Falkenstein (University of WesternOntario).
5. Belief, Probability, Normativity: William Edward Morris(Illinois Wesleyan University).
6. Causation: Abraham Sesshu Roth (University of Illinois atChicago).
7. Identity, Continued Existence, and the External World: DonBaxter (University of Connecticut).
8. Personal Identity and the Sceptical System of Philosophy:Corliss Gayda Swain (St. Olaf College).
9. Hume's Conclusions in 'Conclusion of thisBook': Don Garrett (New York University).
Part III: The Passions:.
10. The Powers and Mechanisms of the Passions: Lilli Alanen(Uppsala University).
11. Hume's "New and Extraordinary" Account ofthe Passions: Jane McIntyre (Cleveland State University).
12. Liberty, Necessity and the Will: Tony Pitson (University ofStirling).
Part IV: Morals:.
13. Reason, Passion and the Influencing Motives of the Will:Mike Karlsson (University of Iceland).
14. Hume's Artificial and Natural Virtues: Rachel Cohon(University at Albany, State University of New York).
15. Virtue and the Evaluation of Character: Jacqueline Taylor(University of San Francisco).
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Saul Traiger is Professor of Philosophy at Occidental College in Los Angeles, California. He is the past president of the Hume Society, and has published numerous articles and reviews on Hume's metaphysics and epistemology, as well as articles in contemporary epistemology, philosophy of mind, and the foundations of cognitive science.