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.
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