The external world and our knowledge of it
Subtitle: Hume's critical realism, an exposition and a defence
By: Fred Wilson.
Series: Toronto studies in philosophy; Toronto studies in philosophy
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Toronto; Buffalo, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 809
ISBN-13: 9780802097644
Subjects: Hume, David, -- 1711-1776; Perception (Philosophy); Knowledge, Theory of; Critical realism
Other titles: Hume's critical realism, an exposition and a defence
Notes: Includes bibliographical references  (p. [771]-786) and index.
Table of contents: title: Abstract ideas and other linguistic rules in Hume; title: The waning of scientia; title: Geometry as scientia and as applied science : Hume's empiricist account of geometry; title: Hume's defence of empirical science; title: Hume on testimony and its epistemological problems; title: Knowledge; title: Naturalism and scepticism; title: Hume's critical realism.