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Books and the Sciences in History
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 460

Books and the Sciences in History

This book, published in 2000, examines the intersection between science and books from early medieval times to the nineteenth century.

Space and the Self in Hume's Treatise
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 252

Space and the Self in Hume's Treatise

A rich and original examination of Hume's discussion of the idea of space.

Impressions of Hume
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 308

Impressions of Hume

Impressions of Hume presents new essays from leading scholars in different philosophical, historiographical, and literary traditions to which Hume made defining contributions. Hume has made a variety of impressions on these different areas; his writings, philosophical and otherwise, may indeed be read in a number of different ways. For example, they can be taken as transparent vehicles for philosophical intuitions, problems, and arguments that are still at the centre of philosophical reflection today. On the other hand, there are readings which are interested in locating Hume's views against the background of concerns, debates and discussions of Hume's own time. And this is not all. Hume's t...

The Animal-human Boundary
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 372

The Animal-human Boundary

An examination of the difficulties in fundamentally differentiating humans from all other animals.

History of Philosophy of Science
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 635

History of Philosophy of Science

This volume includes recent contributions to the philosophy of science from a historical point of view and of the highest topicality: the range of the topics covers all fields in the philosophy of the science provided by authors from around the world focusing on ancient, modern and contemporary periods in the development of the science philosophy. This proceedings is for the scientific community and students at graduate level as well as postdocs in this interdisciplinary field of research.

The Encyclopédie and the Age of Revolution
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 264

The Encyclopédie and the Age of Revolution

Analyse: Avec de nombreuses références sur l'Encyclopédie d'Yverdon et Fortunato Bartolomeo De Felice. Index p. 223-230.

A Companion to Early Modern Philosophy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 675

A Companion to Early Modern Philosophy

This is a reference for early modern philosophy. Representing the most contemporary research in the history of early modern philosophy, it is organized by thinker rather than theme, and covers every important philosopher and philosophical movement of 16th- and 18th-century Europe.

Imagined Causes: Hume's Conception of Objects
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 300

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 thought that objects are imagined ideas. But, she argues, he struggled with two accounts of how and when we imagine such ideas. On the one hand, Hume believed that we always and universally imagine that objects are the causes of our perceptions. On the other hand, he thought that we only imagine such causes when we reach a “philosophical” level of thought. This tension manifests itself in Hume’s account of personal identity; a tension that, Rocknak argues, Hume acknowledges in the Appendix to the Treatise. As a result of Rocknak’s detailed account of Hume’s conception of objects, we are forced to accommodate new interpretations of, at least, Hume’s notions of belief, personal identity, justification and causality.

Higher Superstition
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 348

Higher Superstition

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1997-11-06
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  • Publisher: JHU Press

With the emergence of "cultural studies" and the blurring of once-clear academic boundaries, scholars are turning to Subjects far outside their traditional disciplines and areas of expertise. In Higher Superstition scientists Paul Gross and Norman Levitt raise serious questions about the growing criticism of science by humanists and social scientists on the "academic left." This paperback edition of Higher Superstition includes a new afterword by the authors.

The Sciences in Enlightened Europe
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 586

The Sciences in Enlightened Europe

Radically reorienting our understanding of the Enlightenment, this book explores the complex relations between "englightened" values and the making of scientific knowledge. Here monsters and automata, barometers and botanical gardens, polite academics and boisterous clubs, plans for violent wars and for universal peace, are all relocated in the landscape of enlightened Europe. The contributors show how changing forms of discipline, machinery, and instrumentation affected the emergence of new kinds of knowledge; consider how institutions of public rate taste and conversation helped provide a common frame for the study of human and nonhuman natures; and explore the regional operations of scien...