Imagined Causes: Hume's Conception of Objects

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Rocknak, Stefanie (Συγγραφέας)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Σειρά: The New Synthese Historical Library ; 71
• Θέματα: Philosophy.; Modern philosophy.; History of Philosophy.; Modern Philosophy.

This book provides the first comprehensive account of Hume’s conception of objects in Book I of A Treatise of Human Nature. What, according to Hume, are objects? Ideas? Impressions? Mind-independent objects? All three? None of the above? Through a close textual analysis, Rocknak shows that Hume thou...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• General Introduction.- PART I: LAYING THE GROUNDWORK.- 1. Four Distinctions.- 2. Elementary Belief, Causally-Produced Belief and the Natural Relation of Causality
• 3. The Two Systems of Reality
• PART II: PERFECT IDENTITY AND THE TRANSCENDENTAL IMAGINATION
• 4. Proto-Objects
• 5. The First Account of Transcendental Perfect Identity: The Foundation of Secret Causes
• 6. A Mysterious Kind of Causation: The Second Account of Transcendental Perfect Identity
• 7. Unity, Number and Time: The Third Account of Transcendental Perfect Identity.- PART III: IMAGINING CAUSES IN REACTION TO THE VULGAR: A PURELY PHILOSOPHICAL ENDEAVOR
• 8. The Vulgar Attempt to Achieve Perfect Identity
• 9. The Philosopher’s Reaction to the Vulgar: Imagined Causes Revisited
• 10. Personal Identity.- PART IV: JUSTIFICATION
• 11. Three Unjustified Instances of Imagined Causes: Substances, Primary Qualities and the Soul as an Immaterial Object
• 12. Conclusion.- Bibliography
• Index.