Reading Hume on human understanding
Subtitle: essays on the first Enquiry
By: edited by Peter Millican
Contributors: Millican, P. J. R
Publisher: Clarendon Press; Oxford University Press; Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 495
Subjects: Hume, David, -- 1711-1776; Knowledge, Theory of
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: The context, aims, and structure of Hume's first Enquiry / Peter Millican; title: Two species of philosophy: the historical significance of the first Enquiry / M.A. Stewart; title: Empiricism about meanings / Jonathan Bennett; title: Hume's sceptical doubts concerning induction / Peter Millican; title: Belief and instinct in Hume's first Enquiry / Martin Bell; title: Hume, belief, and personal identity / Justin Broakes; title: The idea of necessary connexion / Edward Craig; title: David Hume: objects and power / Galen Strawson; title: Hume and thick connexions / Simon Blackburn; title: Hume on liberty and necessity / George Botterill; title: Hume on testimony concerning miracles / Don Garrett; title: Hume versus Price on miracles and prior probabilities: testimony and the Bayesian calculation / David Owen; title: Religion: the useless hypothesis / J.C.A. Gaskin; title: Of the academical or sceptical philosophy / David Fate Norton; title: My own life / David Hume; title: Abstract of the Treatise of human nature / David Hume; title: Critical survey of the literature on Hume and the first Enquiry / Peter Millican