Hume's True Scepticism, Hardcover by Ainslie, Donald C., Brand New, Free ship...

Description: Hume's True Scepticism, Hardcover by Ainslie, Donald C., ISBN 0199593868, ISBN-13 9780199593866, Brand New, Free shipping in the US David Hume is famous as a skeptical philosopher but the nature of his skepticism is difficult to pin down. Humes True Scepticism provides the first sustained interpretation of Part 4 of Book 1 of Humes Treatise, his deepest engagement with skeptical arguments. Hume notes there that, while
reason shows that we ought not to believe the verdicts of reason or the senses, we do so nonetheless. Donald C. Ainslie argues that Hume uses our reactions to the sceptical arguments as evidence in favour of his model of the mind. If we were self-conscious subjects, superintending our rational and
sensory beliefs, nothing should stop us from embracing the sceptical conclusions. But instead our minds are bundles of perceptions with our beliefs being generated, not by reflective assent, but by the imaginations association of ideas. We are not forced into the skeptical quagmire. Nonetheless,
we can reflect and philosophy uses this capacity to question whether we should believe our instinctive rational and sensory verdicts. It turns out that we cannot answer this question because the reflective investigation of the mind interferes with the associative processes involved in reason and
sensation. We thus must accept our rational and sensory capacities without being able to vindicate or undermine them philosophically.

Humes True Scepticism addresses Humes theory of representation; his criticisms of Locke, Descartes, and other predecessors; his account of the imagination; his understanding of perceptions and sensory belief; and his bundle theory of the mind and his later rejection of it.

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