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Title:
Reading Hume on human understanding : essays on the first Enquiry
Author:
Millican, P. J. R.
ISBN:
9780198752103

9780198752110
Publication Information:
Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.
Physical Description:
xvi, 495 pages ; 24 cm
Contents:
The context, aims, and structure of Hume's first Enquiry / Peter Millican -- Two species of philosophy: the historical significance of the first Enquiry / M.A. Stewart -- Empiricism about meanings / Jonathan Bennett -- Hume's sceptical doubts concerning induction / Peter Millican -- Belief and instinct in Hume's first Enquiry / Martin Bell -- Hume, belief, and personal identity / Justin Broakes -- The idea of necessary connexion / Edward Craig -- David Hume: objects and power / Galen Strawson -- Hume and thick connexions / Simon Blackburn -- Hume on liberty and necessity / George Botterill -- Hume on testimony concerning miracles / Don Garrett -- Hume versus Price on miracles and prior probabilities: testimony and the Bayesian calculation / David Owen -- Religion: the useless hypothesis / J.C.A. Gaskin -- Of the academical or sceptical philosophy / David Fate Norton -- My own life / David Hume -- Abstract of the Treatise of human nature / David Hume -- Critical survey of the literature on Hume and the first Enquiry / Peter Millican.
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