2 edition of David Hume found in the catalog.
David Hume
Professor A S. Skinner
Published
1992
by Glasgow University, Department of Political Economy in Glasgow
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Written in
Edition Notes
| Statement | Professor A S Skinner. |
| Series | Economic discussion paper series / Glasgow University, Department of Political Economy -- no.1, Economic discussion paper (Glasgow University, Department of Political Economy) -- no.1. |
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| Open Library | OL13970459M |
David Hume (7 May [26 April O.S.] – 25 August ) was a Scottish philosopher, historian, economist, and essayist, known especially for his philosophical empiricism and skepticism. He is regarded as one of the most important figures in the . Hume, I and many others think, was the greatest philosopher to have written in English, and this is the book to pick up if you want to introduce yourself to Saint David's distinctive brand of classical empiricism.5/5(5).
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding. I think this is more distinctively Hume’s contribution to Western, and particularly Anglo-American thought, the foundation of the empirical, pragmatic tradition. The Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion. Hume wrote the Dialogues about but decided to withhold publication during his lifetime. When Adam Smith proved unwilling to take responsibility for the posthumous publication of the Dialogues, Hume entrusted it to his own publisher, William Strahan, with the provision that the work would be committed to Hume’s nephew David if Strahan failed to publish it within two and one-half years of.
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The Treatise is a classic statement of philosophical empiricism, skepticism, and naturalism. The next book is usually known by philosophers as The First Enquiry, but its full title is An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding.
This was written about a decade after the Treatise, and it was designed to make the doctrines of the Treatise — or at least the ones that by that time Hume found himself wedded to — more accessible.
These are the doctrines of the first book of the Treatise. David Hume, Scottish philosopher, historian, economist, and essayist known especially for his philosophical empiricism and skepticism.
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Free delivery worldwide on over 20 million titles. David Hume (hyōōm), –76, Scottish philosopher and ed at Edinburgh, he lived (–37) in France, where he finished his first philosophical work, A Treatise of Human Nature (–40). His other philosophical works include An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (; a simplified version of the first book of the Treatise), An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of.
This treatise by David Hume offers an accessible account of his unprecedented and challenging notions about the limitations of the human mind. It expounds the most influential theory of causality in modern times — one that prompted Kant to create an entirely new school of thought.
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