The Philosophy of David Hume: With a New Introduction by Don Garrett

Front Matter....Pages i-xl
Front Matter....Pages 1-2
Introductory: The Distinctive Principles and Ethical Origins of Hume’s Philosophy....Pages 3-20
Hutcheson’s Teaching and its Influence on Hume....Pages 22-51
The Influence of Newton and of Locke....Pages 52-76
Front Matter....Pages 77-77
Current Misunderstandings of Hume’s Teaching....Pages 78-102
Preliminary Outline Statement of Hume’s Teaching, as Expounded in Parts i, iii and iv of Book I of the Treatise....Pages 104-137
Front Matter....Pages 138-155
Doctrine of the Passions and of Sympathy in its Bearing on Hume’s Theory of Morals....Pages 157-157
The Indirect Passions of Pride and Humility, Love and Hatred; and in Connexion There-With Hume’s First Statement and Application of the Principles of Association....Pages 158-177
The Function of Reason in the Moral Sphere....Pages 178-191
The Opening Sections of the Treatise, As Predetermined by Hume’s Early Doctrine of Belief....Pages 192-202
Memory....Pages 204-226
The Association of Ideas, and its Products....Pages 228-236
Abstract Ideas....Pages 238-255
Hume’s Version of Hutcheson’s Teaching that Space and Time are Non-Sensational....Pages 256-270
‘ Knowledge ’ in the Strict Sense of the Term....Pages 272-346
Belief in Causality: The Nature of Causal ‘Inference’....Pages 348-363
Belief in Causality: The Origin of the Idea of Necessity....Pages 364-388
The Causal Maxim Neither Self-Evident Nor Demonstrable: Its Sanctions Solely Those of Natural Belief....Pages 390-403
Probability of Chances and Probability of Causes....Pages 404-413
Liberty and Necessity....Pages 414-430
Front Matter....Pages 432-441
The Sceptical and the Positive Aspects of Hume’s Doctrine of Natural Belief....Pages 157-157
Belief as it Enters into Sense-Perception....Pages 442-463
‘Identity’ and ‘Substance’ in their Bearing on the Nature of the Self....Pages 464-494
Front Matter....Pages 496-516
The Relation of the Treatise to the Enquiries....Pages 517-517
Concluding Comments....Pages 518-540
Back Matter....Pages 542-566
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