Hume's Reason Contributor(s): Owen, David (Author) |
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ISBN: 0198238312 ISBN-13: 9780198238317 Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA OUR PRICE: $74.10 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: March 2000 Annotation: David Owen explores Hume's account of reason and its role in human understanding, seen in the context of other notable accounts by philosophers of the early modern period. Owen offers new interpretations of many of Hume's most famous arguments, about demonstration and the relation of ideas, induction, belief, and scepticism. Hume's Reason will be illuminating not just to historians of modern philosophy but to all philosophers who are concerned with the workings of human cognition. |
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BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | History & Surveys - Modern - Philosophy | Movements - Humanism - Philosophy | Epistemology |
Dewey: 128.330 |
LCCN: 99051897 |
Lexile Measure: 1390 |
Physical Information: 0.69" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (1.02 lbs) 324 pages |
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Publisher Description: David Owen explores Hume's account of reason and its role in human understanding, seen in the context of other notable accounts by philosophers of the early modern period. Owen offers new interpretations of many of Hume's most famous arguments, about demonstration and the relation of ideas, induction, belief, and scepticism. Hume's Reason will be illuminating not just to historians of modern philosophy but to all philosophers who are concerned with the workings of human cognition. |