David Hume: Critical Assessments (Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415020123 ISBN 13: 9780415020121

Publisher: Routledge, 1994

Synopsis

These volumes bring together for the first time some of the most important research on the philosophy of David Hume. Hume wrote on a large variety of philosophic topics, and many of these are addressed in these volumes. The volumes cover the following areas: Volume 1 - Epistemology, Reason; Volume 2 - Induction, Scepticism; Volume 3 - External World, Causality Naturalism, Mental Activity, Ontology, Personal Identity and the Self, Space and Time; Volume 4 - Ethics, Passions, Sympathy, Is/Ought; Volume 5 - Religion; Volume 6 - Politics, Economics, Justice and Miracles, as well as some miscellaneous topics. Papers have been selected for their clarity, their high quality, their originality and their lasting significance. An extensive selected bibliography is included in each volume: bibliographic material is listed according to the topics covered in the particular volume.

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About the Author

Stanley Tweyman is Professor in the Department of Philosophy at York University. He is editor of David Hume-- Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion in focus, published by Routledge.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0415020123
• ISBN 13: 9780415020121
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 2880
• Editor: Tweyman Stanley