Riddle of Hume's Treatise Skepticism, Naturalism, and Irreligion

Name: Riddle of Hume's Treatise Skepticism, Naturalism, and Irreligion
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ISBN: 9780195110333

ISBN-10: 0195110331

ISBN-13: 9780195110333

Edition: 2007

Authors: Paul Russell

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Although it is widely recognized that David Hume's A Treatise of Human Nature (1739-40) belongs among the greatest works of philosophy, there is little agreement about the correct way to interpret his fundamental intentions. It is an established orthodoxy among almost all commentators that skepticism and naturalism are the two dominant themes in this work. The difficulty has been, however, that Hume's skeptical arguments and commitments appear to undermine and discredit his naturalistic ambition to contribute to "the science of man". This schism appears to leave his entire project broken-backed. The solution to this riddle depends on challenging another, closely related, point of…

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List price: $91.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 2/5/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 464
Size: 6.38" wide x 9.61" long x 1.26" tall
Weight: 1.738
Language: English




Riddles, Critics and Monsters: Text and Context



The Riddle



"Atheism" and Hume's Early Critics



Religious Philosophers and Speculative Atheists



Newtonianism, Freethought, and Hume's Scottish Context



The Monster of Atheism: Its Being and Attributes



The Form and Face of Humes's System



A Hobbist Plan



Atheism Under Cover: Esoteric Communication on Hume's Title-Pages



The Nature of Hume's Universe



Blind Men Before a Fire: Empiricism and the Idea of God



Making Nothing of "Almighty Space"



Hume's "Curious Nostrum" and the Argument A Priori



Induction, Analogy and a Future State: Hume's "Guide to Life"



Matter, Omnipotence and our Idea of Necessity



Skepticism, Deception and the Material World



Immaterialisty, Ommortality and the Human Soul



The Practical Pyrrhonist



The Elements of Virtuous Atheism



Freedom Within Necessity: Hume's "clockwork Man"



Morality without Religion



Hume's Philosophy of Irreligion