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## Argues that David Hume was a thoroughgoing sceptic on epistemological, metaphysical and doxastic grounds * Advances both historical and logical reasons for the conclusion that Hume is a radical sceptic * Exhibits extraordinary historical depth and breadth, with a sweep covering the history of Western philosophy * Covers Hume's __A Treatise of Human Nature__; __An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding__ and __An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals__; __Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary__; __The History of England__; __Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion__; and letters Making a sharp break with dominant contemporary readings of David Hume’s scepticism, Peter S. Fosl offers an original and radical interpretation of Hume as a thoroughgoing sceptic. He does this by first situating Hume’s thought historically in the sceptical tradition and goes on to interpret the conceptual apparatus of Hume's work.
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- Author
- Peter S. Fosl
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press Ltd
- Published
- 2022
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781474451154
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Philosophy, Humanities
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