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How to Read Hume

By Simon Blackburn

Book information

Publisher
Granta Books
Year
2008
ISBN
1847080332, 9781847080332
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
6 MB (5863551 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
128\132
Time added
2023-11-02 23:48:35

Description

David Hume is generally recognized as England's greatest philosopher, as well as a notable historian and essayist. Yet his work is delicately poised between scepticism and naturalism, between despair at the limited powers of the mind and optimism at the progress we can make by understanding it. This difficult balancing act has given rise to a multitude of different interpretations: reading Hume has never been free of controversy. In this new approach to his writings Simon Blackburn describes how Hume can be placed as one of the earliest, and most successful, evolutionary psychologists, weaving plausible natural accounts of the way we should think of ourselves, and of how we have come to be what we are.

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