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Imagined Causes: Hume's Conception of Objects

Imagined Causes: Hume's Conception of Objects

Hardcover

Series: New Synthese Historical Library, Book 71

Philosophy

ISBN10: 9400721862
ISBN13: 9789400721869
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Sep 14 2012
Pages: 292
Weight: 1.25
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.20
Language: English
General Introduction.- PART I: LAYING THE GROUNDWORK.- 1. Four Distinctions.- 2. Elementary Belief, Causally-Produced Belief and the Natural Relation of Causality.- 3. The Two Systems of Reality.- PART II: PERFECT IDENTITY AND THE TRANSCENDENTAL IMAGINATION.- 4. Proto-Objects.- 5. The First Account of Transcendental Perfect Identity: The Foundation of Secret Causes.- 6. A Mysterious Kind of Causation: The Second Account of Transcendental Perfect Identity.- 7. Unity, Number and Time: The Third Account of Transcendental Perfect Identity.- PART III: IMAGINING CAUSES IN REACTION TO THE VULGAR: A PURELY PHILOSOPHICAL ENDEAVOR.- 8. The Vulgar Attempt to Achieve Perfect Identity.- 9. The Philosopher's Reaction to the Vulgar: Imagined Causes Revisited.- 10. Personal Identity.- PART IV: JUSTIFICATION.- 11. Three Unjustified Instances of Imagined Causes: Substances, Primary Qualities and the Soul as an Immaterial Object.- 12. Conclusion.- Bibliography.- Index

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