David Hume and the Culture of Scottish Newtonianism

Methodology and Ideology in Enlightenment Inquiry

von Tamás Demeter

224 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

David Hume has a canonical place in the context of moral philosophy, but his insights are less frequently discussed in relation to natural philosophy. David Hume and the Culture of Scottish Newtonianism offers a discussion of Hume's methodological and ideological commitments in matters of knowledge as reflected in his language and outlook. Tamás Demeter argues that several aspects of Hume's moral philosophy reflect post-Newtonian tendencies in the aftermath of the Opticks, and show affinities with Newton-inspired Scottish physiology and chemistry. Consequently, when Hume describes his project as an 'anatomy of the mind' he uses a metaphor that expresses his commitment to study human cognitive and affective functioning on analogy with active and organic nature, and not with the Principia's world of inert matter.

• Themen: Philosophie und Religion Philosophie
• ISBN: 9789004327313
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 23.09.2016
• Größe: 236 x 157 mm
• Verlag: Brill