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Hume's Science of Human Nature: Scientific Realism, Reason, and Substantial Explanation

Hume's Science of Human Nature: Scientific Realism, Reason, and Substantial Explanation

Paperback

Series: Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Philosophy

PhilosophySports General

ISBN10: 0367891719
ISBN13: 9780367891718
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Dec 17 2019
Pages: 266
Weight: 0.83
Height: 0.59 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Hume's Science of Human Nature is an investigation of the philosophical commitments underlying Hume's methodology in pursuing what he calls 'the science of human nature'. It argues that Hume understands scientific explanation as aiming at explaining the inductively-established universal regularities discovered in experience via an appeal to the nature of the substance underlying manifest phenomena. For years, scholars have taken Hume to employ a deliberately shallow and demonstrably untenable notion of scientific explanation. By contrast, Hume's Science of Human Nature sets out to update our understanding of Hume's methodology by using a more sophisticated picture of science as a model.

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