Overview
- Takes both an interpretive and analytic approach to Hume's philosophy
- Aimed at not only academics but also graduate students and researchers
- Defends the very contentious Idealist interpretation of Hume on external objects
Part of the book series: Jerusalem Studies in Philosophy and History of Science (JSPS)
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About this book
This book defends the very contentious Idealist interpretation of Hume on external objects, and draws from it far-reaching metaphysical and epistemological consequences for Hume’s philosophy. Its interest is both interpretive and analytic. The content Hume ascribes to the belief in “bodies” is susceptible to more than one reading, and has not been systematically considered. Upholding the Idealistic interpretation is interesting in its own right, but also yields several important conclusions about the spatiality of objects, causation, Hume’s “science of man” and his epistemology. For instance, it argues that the Idealist reading means that there are no cross-temporal spatial relationships, and that the (more prevalent) Materialist reading takes Hume further away from methodological empiricism than does the Idealist counterpart, and may render his practice less in conformity with his official methodology. The monograph is therefore of great interest to not only academics but also scholars, graduate students and researchers.
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Interpretation
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Metaphysical Consequences of the Idealist Interpretation
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Consequences of the Idealist Interpretation for Hume’s Science of Man
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Consequences of the Idealist Interpretation for Hume’s Methodology
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Epistemological Consequences of Idealism
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Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Ruth Weintraub is Professor of Philosophy at Tel-Aviv University. Her publications include The Sceptical Challenge (1997), as well as articles in epistemology, on paradoxes and the philosophy of David Hume.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Humean Bodies and their Consequences
Authors: Ruth Weintraub
Series Title: Jerusalem Studies in Philosophy and History of Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-50799-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-50798-4Published: 08 February 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-50801-1Published: 08 February 2025
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-50799-1Published: 07 February 2024
Series ISSN: 2524-4248
Series E-ISSN: 2524-4256
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 189
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Philosophy of Science, Philosophy, general