About this title: Hume is one of the greatest of all British philosophers, and even in his own lifetime was celebrated as one of the pivotal figures of the Enlightenment. A central theme of his philosophy is the conviction that questions traditionally thought of as completely independent of the scientific realmDSquestions about the mind, about morality, and about God, for exampleDSare actually best explained using the experimental methods characteristic of the natural sciences. Hume's 'naturalist' approach to a wide variety of philosophical topics resulted in highly original theories about perception, self ...
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Binding: PAPERBACK
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date Published: 1980
ISBN-13:9780192875280ISBN:0192875280
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Edition: First Edition
Binding: Paper Back
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Oxford
Date Published: 1980
ISBN-13:9780192875280ISBN:0192875280
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780192854063ISBN:0192854062
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr
Date Published: 1980
ISBN-13:9780192875280ISBN:0192875280
Description: Good. Edgewear and creasing on front cover, paper somewhat yellowed, some pencil underlines and margin stars, otherwise clean, tight copy. read more
Edition: NEW ED
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS Country = UNITED KINGDOM
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780192854063ISBN:0192854062
Description: BRAND NEW PAPERBACK. 144 pages. (136 pages) hume is one of the greatest of all british philosophers. hume's 'naturalist' approach to a variety of philosophical topics resulted in theories about perception, self-identity, causation, morality, politics, and religion, which are discussed in this introduction. this book gives an account of hume's life and character. black and white halftones and line drawings edition new ed (Paperback) read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780192854063ISBN:0192854062
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks
Date Published: 20/03/1980
ISBN-13:9780192875280ISBN:0192875280
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Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks
Date Published: 20/03/1980
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Date Published: 20/03/1980
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780192854063ISBN:0192854062
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: OXFORD UNIV PR
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780192854063ISBN:0192854062
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"My low rating here has nothing to do with the content of David Hume's ideas, which are actually quite fascinating. It has entirely to do with the author's terrible exposition of them. Rather than give a truly "short introduction" to the basic tenets of Hume's writings, he tediously argues the minutia of them. He is more concerned with responding to Hume than to explaining him to the naive reader. This book is just terrible and I wouldn't recommend it to anyone. You can probably get a better (and free) introduction on Wikipedia. For example, Hume is famous for asking of the Christian religion, "Which is more likely, that the whole natural order be suspended, or that a Jewish minx should tell a lie?" This book does NOT contain this quote. How do you skip over that?
I think the following two sentences epitomize what I hate about the author's style. In the first, please take a moment to count all six (SIX!) commas in this nearly unintelligible behemoth. And in the second notice how the author immediately reacts to Hume instead of simply summarizing the idea:
"This goes with the fact, which has been strangely overlooked by the many philosophers, starting with Kant, who have tried to rebut Hume by arguing for the necessity, or at least the probability, of some general principle of uniformity, that its very generality would prevent such a principle from doing the work required of it. I am not sure whether Hume believed that the adoption of the principle which he formulated would legitimize inductive arguments by making them deductive, but if he did, he was mistaken."
I mean this guy cannot take himself out of the book. He is constantly saying Hume was wrong and saying why his own modern ideas are superior. Not exactly what I thought I was getting based on the title. Skip this one, trust me."
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