Intro -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Descartes's New Theory of Reasoning -- 3. Locke on Reasoning -- 4. Hume and Ideas: Relations and Associations -- 5. Intuition, Certainty, and Demonstrative Reasoning -- 6. Probable Reasoning: The Negative Argument -- 7. Belief and the Development of Hume's Account of Probable Reasoning -- 8. Reason, Belief, and Scepticism -- 9. The Limits and Warrant of Reason -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.
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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Hume, David, -- 1711-1776 -- Contributions in concept of reason. Reason -- History -- 18th century.