The Cambridge Companion to Hume (Cambridge Companions to Philosophy) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521677343 ISBN 13: 9780521677349

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2008

Synopsis

Each Cambridge Companion to a philosophical figure is made up of specially commissioned essays by an international team of scholars, providing students and non-specialists with an introduction to a major philosopher. The series aims to dispel the intimidation that readers may feel when faced with the work of a challenging thinker. David Hume is now considered one of the most important philosophers of the Western world. Although best known for his contributions to the theory of knowledge, metaphysics, and philosophy of religion, Hume also influenced developments in the philosophy of mind, psychology, ethics, political and economic theory, political and social history, and aesthetic theory. The fifteen essays in this volume address all aspects of Hume's thought. The picture of him that emerges is that of a thinker who, though often critical to the point of skepticism, was nonetheless able to build on that skepticism a constructive, viable, and profoundly important view of the world. Also included in this volume are Hume's two brief autobiographies and a bibliography suited to those beginning their study of Hume. This second edition of one our most popular Companions includes six new essays and a new introduction, and the remaining essays have all been updated or revised.

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Book Description:

David Hume is now considered among the most important philosophers of the Western world. Although best known for his contributions to the theory of knowledge, metaphysics, and the philosophy of religion, Hume also influenced developments in the philosophy of mind, psychology, ethics, political and economic theory, political and social history, and aesthetic theory. The fifteen essays in this second edition of one of our most popular Companions address all aspects of Hume's wide-ranging thought.

About the Author:

David Fate Norton is Professor of Moral Philosophy Emeritus, McGill University, and Adjunct Professor of Philosophy, University of Victoria. He has published widely on Hume and eighteenth-century British philosophy, and recently co-edited the first critical edition of Hume's Treatise of Human Nature.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0521677343
• ISBN 13: 9780521677349
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 578
• Editor: Norton David Fate, Taylor Jacqueline