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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`This is very well-trodden ground, but Owen succeeds in casting new light upon... Taken as a whole, Hume's Reason is proof of the value of careful elaboration.' James Harris, TLS September 15 2000
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David Owen is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Arizona. He taught previously at Oxford and Columbia Universities.
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Descartes rejected syllogism and its associated formal account of deductive reasoning. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Descartes's New Theory, David Norton, Don Garrett, Hume's Treatise, There Hume New!
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Descartes rejected syllogism and its associated formal account of deductive reasoning. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Descartes's New Theory, David Norton, Don Garrett, Hume's Treatise, There Hume New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- A Treatise of Human Nature (Oxford Philosophical Texts) by David Hume in Front Matter, and page 64
- Hume: An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume in Front Matter, and page 101
- Rules for the Direction of the Mind by Rene Descartes in Front Matter
- The Philosophy of Religion (Oxford Readings in Philosophy) by Basil Mitchell in Back Matter
- Philosophical Explanations by Robert Nozick in Back Matter
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- Reading Hume on Human Understanding: Essays on the First Enquiry by Peter Millican on page 175, and Back Matter
- Hellenistic and Early Modern Philosophy by Jon Miller in Back Matter
- Stability and Justification in Hume's Treatise by Louis E. Loeb in Back Matter
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