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Hume's scepticism : pyrrhonian and academic /
"Making a sharp break with dominant contemporary readings of David Hume's scepticism, Peter S. Fosl offers an original and radical interpretation of Hume as a thoroughgoing sceptic. He does this by first situating Hume's thought historically in the sceptical tradition and goes on to i...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
2020.
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| Colección: | Edinburgh studies in Scottish philosophy.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations and Conventions; Introduction: Into Those Immense Depths; Part I: Academic and Pyrrhonian Scepticism, Ancient and Modern; 1. Hume and Ancient Academic Scepticism; 1.1. Doubt in the Old Academy; 1.2. Probabilism, Fallibilism, and Belief in the Middle and New Academies; 1.3. The Theoretical Sceptics: Clitomachian and Metrodorian Scepticism; 1.4. Conclusion; 2. Hume and the Legacy of Academic Scepticism; 2.1. The Career of Academic Scepticism; 2.2. Hume's Academic Scepticism; 2.3. Conclusion; 3. Hume and Ancient Pyrrhonian Scepticism; 3.1. Origins: From Pyrrho to Sextus Empiricus; 3.2. The Agogê of Appearances; 3.3. Negative Pyrrhonism: Subversion, Suspension, and Silence; 3.4. Positive Pyrrhonism: Constructive Philosophical Theory; 3.5. A General Framework for Pyrrhonian Scepticism; 3.6. Conclusion; 4. Hume and the Legacy of Pyrrhonian Scepticism; 4.1. The Career of Pyrrhonism; 4.2. Pyrrhonism in Hume; 4.3. Conclusion; Part II: Hume's True Sceptical Philosophy; 5. Phûsis, The Fatalities of Appearance; 5.1. The Fluvial and the Necessary: The 'Current of Nature'; 5.2. Apelletic Empiricism and the Priority of Hume's Sceptical Naturalism; 5.3. The Fatalities of Nature and Human Empereia; 5.4. Conclusion; 6. Ethos, The Great Sceptical Guide; 6.1. Inhabiting the World; 6.2. Sceptical Politics; 6.3. Scepticism and Religion; 6.4. Conclusion; 7. Technai, Dogmatism and Hume's Technologies of Doubt; 7.1. A Caveat and a Reminder; 7.2. Epistemological Dogmatism; 7.3. Metaphysical Dogmatism; 7.4. Conclusion; 8. Pathê, Hume's Non-Dogmatic Philosophy; 8.1. Hume's Doxastic Scepticism and Non-Dogmatic Philosophy; 8.2. Three Kinds of Assent; 8.3. Sceptical Science and Dogmatic Hidden Standards; 8.4. Conclusion: An End to the Voyage; Bibliography; Index.