The External World and Our Knowledge of It : Hume's Critical Realism, an Exposition and a Defence /

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Complete with original observations and ideas, this study is sure to generate debates about Humean philosophy, critical realism, and the limits of perceptual knowledge.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wilson, Fred, 1937-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, 2008
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Hume, David, > 1711-1776.
Perception (Philosophy)
Knowledge, Theory of.
Critical realism.
PHILOSOPHY > Criticism.
PHILOSOPHY > History & Surveys > Modern.
epistemology.
perception.
Realisme critique.
Theorie de la connaissance.
Perception (Philosophie)
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Abstract ideas and other linguistic rules in Hume
  • The waning of scientia
  • Geometry as scientia and as applied science : Hume's empiricist account of geometry
  • Hume's defence of empirical science
  • Hume on testimony and its epistemological problems
  • Knowledge
  • Naturalism and scepticism
  • Hume's critical realism.

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