John O Nelson

Hume's 'New Scene of Thought' and the Several Faces of David Hume in the Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion

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Hume's New Scene of Thought, is a defense of Hume's philosophical principles in the Treatise of Human Nature. Nelson shows that Hume's new philosophy was a uniquely original and profound work, a masterpiece in philosophical literature, and a work worthy of serious study and acceptance. Expounding on the meaning that Hume gives to his new science of man founded on an empirical foundation, it is shown that all the sciences were, in effect, nothing more than branches of introspective psychology. The thesis of The Several faces of David Hume in The Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion is that Dialogues is a reflective philosophical autobiography… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-7618-4735-9
EAN: 9780761847359
Produktnummer: 5184758
Verlag: University Press Of America
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
Seitenangabe: 184 S.
Masse: H24.0 cm x B16.1 cm x D1.4 cm 448 g
Abbildungen: HC gerader Rücken kaschiert
Gewicht: 448

Über den Autor

John O. Nelson (1917-2005) spent his academic career as a professor of philosophy at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He earned his Ph.D. from Cornell, where he studied under Norman Malcolm. Nelson is the author of more than 120 articles in professional philosophy journals, and Hume's New Scene of Thought, published here for the first time, is his only book.