Imagined causes Hume's conception of objects /
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...
| Main Author: | Rocknak, Stefanie. |
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| Other Authors: | SpringerLink (Online service) |
| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Dordrecht ; New York :
Springer,
©2013.
Dordrecht ; New York : [2013] |
| Physical Description: |
1 online resource. |
| Series: |
New synthese historical library ;
v. 71. |
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Table of Contents:
- Part 1.
- LAYING THE GROUNDWORK
- Four Distinctions
- Elementary Belief, Causally-Produced Belief and the Natural Relation of Causality
- The Two Systems of Reality
- Part 2.
- PERFECT IDENTITY AND THE TRANSCENDENTAL IMAGINATION
- Proto-Objects
- The First Account of Transcendental Perfect Identity: The Foundation of Secret Causes
- A Mysterious Kind of Causation: The Second Account of Transcendental Perfect Identity
- Unity, Number and Time: The Third Account of Transcendental Perfect Identity
- Part 3.
- IMAGINING CAUSES IN REACTION TO THE VULGAR: A PURELY PHILOSOPHICAL ENDEAVOR
- The Vulgar Attempt to Achieve Perfect Identity
- The Philosopher's Reaction to the Vulgar: Imagined Causes Revisited
- Personal Identity
- Part 4.
- JUSTIFICATION
- Three Unjustified Instances of Imagined Causes: Substances, Primary Qualities and the Soul as an Immaterial Object
- Conclusion.