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Graciela De Pierris Presents A Novel Interpretation Of The Relationship Between Skepticism And Naturalism In Hume's Epistemology, And A New Appraisal Of Hume's Place Within Early Modern Thought. Whereas A Dominant Trend In Recent Hume Scholarship Maintains That There Are No Skeptical Arguments Concerning Causation And Induction In Book I, Part Iii Of The 'treatise,' Graciela De Pierris Presents A Detailed Reading Of The Skeptical Argument She Finds There And How This Argument Initiates A Train Of Skeptical Reasoning That Begins In Part Iii And Culminates In Part Iv. This Reasoning Is Framed By Hume's Version Of The Modern Theory Of Ideas Developed By Descartes And Locke. The Skeptical Implications Of This Theory, However, Do Not Arise, As In Traditional Interpretations Of Hume's Skepticism, From The 'veil Of Perception.' They Arise From Hume's Elaboration Of A Presentational-phenomenological Model Of Ultimate Evidence, According To Which There Is Always A Justificatory Gap Between What Is Or Has Been Immediately Presented To The Mind And Any Ideas That Go Beyond It. This Happens, Paradigmatically, In The Causal-inductive Inference, And, As De Pierris Argues, In Demonstrative Infere

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Author
Graciela Teresa De Pierris
Publisher
IRL Press at Oxford University Press
Published
2015
Language
EN
ISBN
9780191785368
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
History, Philosophy, Science

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