18th-century philosophy
A Treatise of Human Nature
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causal inference
Common Language
Copy Principle
David Hume
David Landy
Don Garrett
empiricism philosophy
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existence
External Existence
False Philosophy
Galen Strawson
Graciela De Pierris
Greater Explanatory Force
history of philosophy
history of science
human nature
Hume's Philosophical System
Humean scientific methodology analysis
Hume’s Philosophical System
Ideal Gas Law
imagination
impression idea distinction
Impression Idea Distinctions
Inductivist Account
Manifest Phenomena
memory
mental representation
metaphysics mind
modern philosophy
Necessarily Connected
necessary connection
Nominalist Interpretation
Perceptible Model
personal identity
personal identity theory
philosophy of explanation
reason
Recombinatory Faculty
Representational Copy Principle
Resemblance Relations
Revival Set
SBN
scientific explanation
scientific realism
Sellars's Understanding
Sellars’s Understanding
Simple Complex Distinction
Substantial Explanation
Theoretical Explanatory Posits
Theoretical Representation
Uniting Principle
Vice Versa
Wilfrid Sellars
Product details
- ISBN 9780367891718
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 17 Dec 2019
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Hume’s Science of Human Nature is an investigation of the philosophical commitments underlying Hume's methodology in pursuing what he calls ‘the science of human nature’. It argues that Hume understands scientific explanation as aiming at explaining the inductively-established universal regularities discovered in experience via an appeal to the nature of the substance underlying manifest phenomena. For years, scholars have taken Hume to employ a deliberately shallow and demonstrably untenable notion of scientific explanation. By contrast, Hume’s Science of Human Nature sets out to update our understanding of Hume’s methodology by using a more sophisticated picture of science as a model.
David Landy is Associate Professor of Philosophy at San Francisco State University. He is the author of Kant’s Inferentialism: The Case Against Hume (Routledge, 2015).
