Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

Name: Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
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ISBN: 9780199211586

ISBN-10: 0199211582

ISBN-13: 9780199211586

Edition: 2007

Authors: David Hume, Peter Millican

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David Hume's Enquiry concerning Human Understanding is the definitive statement of the greatest philosopher in the English language. His arguments in support of reasoning from experience, and against the "sophistry and illusion"of religiously inspired philosophical fantasies, caused controversy in the eighteenth century and are strikingly relevant today, when faith and science continue to clash. The Enquiry considers the origin and processes of human thought, reaching the stark conclusion that we can have no ultimate understanding of the physical world, or indeed our own minds. In either sphere we must depend on instinctive learning from experience, recognizing our animal nature and the…

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List price: $15.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 5/18/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 5.08" wide x 7.72" long x 0.55" tall
Weight: 0.462
Language: English



An enquiry concerning human understanding



Of the different species of philosophy



Of the origin of ideas



Of the association of ideas



Sceptical doubts concerning the operations of the understanding



Sceptical solution of these doubts



Of probability



Of the idea of necessary connexion



Of liberty and necessity



Of the reason of animals



Of miracles



Of a particular providence and of a future state



Of the academical or sceptical philosophy


Hume's endnotes



Abstract of A treatise of human nature (1740)



'Of the immortality of the soul' (printed 1755)



Excerpts from parts I and II of the Dialogues concerning natural religion (1779)



Excerpts from Hume's letters



'My own life'