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Hume's Imagination (Hardcover)
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Hume's Imagination (Hardcover)
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This book proposes a new and systematic interpretation of the
mental nature, function and structure, and importance of the
imagination in Book 1, 'Of the Understanding', of Hume's Treatise
of Human Nature. The proposed interpretation has deeply revisionary
implications for Hume's philosophy of mind and for his naturalism,
epistemology, and stance to scepticism. The book remedies a
surprising blindspot in Hume scholarship and contributes to the
current, lively philosophical debate on imagination. Hume's
philosophy, if rightly understood, gives suggestions about how to
treat imagination as a mental natural kind, its cognitive
complexity and variety of functions notwithstanding. Hume's
imagination is a faculty of inference and the source of a
distinctive kind of idea, which complements our sensible
representations of objects. Our cognitive nature, if restricted to
the representation of objects and of their relations, would leave
ordinary and philosophical cognition seriously underdetermined and
expose us to scepticism. Only the non-representational, inferential
faculty of the imagination can put in place and vindicate ideas
like causation, body, and self, which support our cognitive
practices. The book reconstructs how Hume's naturalist
inferentialism about the imagination develops this fundamental
insight. Its five parts deal with the dualism of representation and
inference; the explanation of generality and modality; the
production of causal ideas; the production of spatial and temporal
content, and the distinction of an external world of bodies and an
internal one of selves; and the replacement of the understanding
with imagination in the analysis of cognition and in epistemology.
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