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Kienhow Goh

National University of Singapore
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    Reading Hume's Inference from Constancy from the Vulgar Standpoint
    Journal of Scottish Philosophy 10 (2): 237-253. 2012.
    Recent work on Hume's Theory of Perception has shown that Hume takes the appearance of impressions to vary according to the ideas under which they are subsumed. In this paper, I argue that the vulgar position in the section where he discusses the Inference from Constancy is characterised by an ideal primordial state of mind where impressions are directly encountered without being subsumed under any idea. In particular, impressions which are not subsumed under the idea of a perception do not appe…Read more
    Hume: EpistemologyHume: Ideas, Misc
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    Schopenhauer on the Role of the Intellect in Human Cognition
    Southwest Philosophy Review 29 (1). 2013.
    In Schopenhauer’s thought, the will’s primacy over the intellect seems to suggest that the intellect plays no role in determining what we do. I provide an alternative picture of the intellect as actively deliberating and choosing in abstract cognition from what it passively receives from the will in natural cognition.
    Arthur Schopenhauer