Reflection and the Stability of Belief : Essays on Descartes, Hume, and Reid.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (388 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- The Essays -- Abbreviations for Editions of Seventeenth- to Nineteenth-Century Works -- References to Hume -- Introduction -- 1. Is There Radical Dissimulation in Descartes' Meditations? (1986) -- 2. The Priority of Reason in Descartes (1990) -- 3. The Cartesian Circle (1992) -- 4. Sextus, Descartes, Hume, and Peirce: On Securing Settled Doxastic States (1998) -- 5. Integrating Hume's Accounts of Belief and Justification (2001) -- 6. Hume's Explanations of Meaningless Beliefs (2001) -- 7. Hume on Stability, Justification, and Unphilosophical Probability (1995) -- 8. Hume's Agent-centered Sentimentalism (2003) -- 9. What Is Worth Preserving in the Kemp Smith Interpretation of Hume? (2009) -- 10. Psychology, Epistemology, and Skepticism in Hume's Argument about Induction (2006) -- 11. Locke and British Empiricism (forthcoming) -- 12. The Naturalisms of Hume and Reid (2007) -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.
This volume presents published articles by the distinguished scholar of early modern philosophy, Louis E. Loeb. Loeb is known particularly for his original and influential scholarship on Descartes and Hume, and the articles reflect this focus.
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Reason. Belief and doubt. Descartes, René,-1596-1650. Hume, David,-1711-1776. Reid, Thomas,-1710-1796.