Imagined Causes: Hume's Conception of Objects (Paperback, 2013 ed.)

This book provides the first comprehensive account of Hume's conception of objects in Book I of A Treatise of Human Nature. What, according to Hume, are objects? Ideas? Impressions? Mind-independent objects? All three? None of the above? Through a close textual analysis, Rocknak shows that Hume thought that objects are imagined ideas. But, she argues, he struggled with two accounts of how and when we imagine such ideas. On the one hand, Hume believed that we always and universally imagine that objects are the causes of our perceptions. On the other hand, he thought that we only imagine such causes when we reach a "philosophical" level of thought. This tension manifests itself in Hume's account of personal identity; a tension that, Rocknak argues, Hume acknowledges in the Appendix to the Treatise. As a result of Rocknak's detailed account of Hume's conception of objects, we are forced to accommodate new interpretations of, at least, Hume's notions of belief, personal identity, justification and causality.

General

Imprint:	Springer
Country of origin:	Netherlands
Series:	The New Synthese Historical Library, 71
Release date:	October 2014
First published:	2013
Authors:	Stefanie Rocknak
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	292
Edition:	2013 ed.
ISBN-13:	978-9400798359
Categories:	Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present > Western philosophy, from c 1900 - > General Books > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present > Western philosophy, from c 1900 - > General
LSN:	9400798350
Barcode:	9789400798359

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