Weintraub Humean Bodies and their Consequences

1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-3-031-50799-1
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 189 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Jerusalem Studies in Philosophy and History of Science

This book defends the very contentious Idealist interpretation of Hume on external objects, and draws from it far-reaching metaphysical and epistemological consequences for Hume’s philosophy. Its interest is both interpretive and analytic. The content Hume ascribes to the belief in “bodies” is susceptible to more than one reading, and has not been systematically considered. Upholding the Idealistic interpretation is interesting in its own right, but also yields several important conclusions about the spatiality of objects, causation, Hume’s “science of man” and his epistemology. For instance, it argues that the Idealist reading means that there are no cross-temporal spatial relationships, and that the (more prevalent) Materialist reading takes Hume further away from methodological empiricism than does the Idealist counterpart, and may render his practice less in conformity with his official methodology. The monograph is therefore of great interest to not only academics but also scholars, graduate students and researchers.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weintraub, Ruth

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part I: Interpretation

Chapter 1: Interpreting Hume on Bodies

Chapter 2: Arguments in Support of the Idealist Interpretation

Chapter 3. Meeting Objections to the Idealist Interpretation

Part II: Metaphysical Consequences of the Idealist Interpretation

Chapter 4: Consequences of the Idealist Interpretation for the Unity of Space

Chapter 5: Consequences of the Idealist Interpretation for Causation

Part III: Consequences of the Idealist Interpretation for Hume’s Science of Man

Chapter 6: Spatial and Causal Thoughts from an Idealist Point of View

Part IV: Consequences of the Idealist Interpretation for Hume’s Methodology

Chapter 7: The Idealist Interpretation Renders Hume More of an Empiricist

Über Autor(innen)

Ruth Weintraub is Professor of Philosophy at Tel-Aviv University. Her publications include The Sceptical Challenge (1997), as well as articles in epistemology, on paradoxes and the philosophy of David Hume.