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1407Scepticism and Naturalism in Cavell and HumeInternational Journal for the Study of Skepticism 5 (1): 29-54. 2015.This essay argues that the exploration of scepticism and its implications in the work of Stanley Cavell and David Hume bears more similarities than is commonly acknowledged, especially along the lines of what I wish to call “sceptical naturalism.” These lines of similarity are described through the way each philosopher relates the “natural” and “nature” to the universal, the necessary, and the conventional.
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737Donald Livingston's Philosophical Melancholy and Delirium (review)Hume Studies 24 (2): 355-366. 1998.
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543The Philosopher's Toolkit: A Compendium of Philosophical Concepts and MethodsWiley-Blackwell. 2002.The second edition of this popular compendium provides the necessary intellectual equipment to engage with and participate in effective philosophical argument, reading, and reflection Features significantly revised, updated and expanded entries, and an entirely new section drawn from methods in the history of philosophy This edition has a broad, pluralistic approach--appealing to readers in both continental philosophy and the history of philosophy, as well as analytic philosophy Explains difficu…Read more
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88A Treatise of Human Nature (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 46 (2): 325-326. 2008.David Fate Norton and Mary J. Norton’s new edition of David Hume’s A Treatise of Human Nature , volumes 1 and 2 of The Clarendon Edition of the Works of David Hume, establishes a new standard for scholars engaged with that work, in two ways. In the first place, it presents the cleanest critical text to date of the Treatise itself, together with the most robust scholarly apparatus available. Secondly, and in some ways more extraordinarily, the new Clarendon edition realizes for the first time an …Read more
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86The bibliographic bases of Hume's understanding of sextus empiricus and pyrrhonismJournal of the History of Philosophy 36 (2): 261-278. 1998.The Bibliographic Bases of Hume's Understanding of Sextus Empiricus and Pyrrhonism PETER S. FOSL N~q~e ~vaoo 6t~ttoxe~v' Epicharmus OVER THE PAST FORTY YEARS, the work of many scholars has served to advance and secure a hermeneutical approach to the development of modern philoso- phy first articulated by Richard H. Popkin3 The central proposition upon which this approach turns is that the discovery and application of ancient I am grateful to Richard Popkin, Julia Annas , Jonathan Barnes , Craig …Read more
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84Hume’s True Scepticism, written by Donald C. AinslieInternational Journal for the Study of Skepticism 8 (4): 348-353. 2018._ Source: _Page Count 6
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76Hume, Skepticism, and Early American DeismHume Studies 25 (1-2): 171-192. 1999.This article first builds upon precedent work--including that of John M. Werner, Kerry S. Walters, and James Dye-to articulate a more complete understanding of David Hume's influence upon North American colonial and early U.S. thought. Secondly, through a comparison with arguments concerning miracles developed by early American deists Elihu Palmer, Ethan Allen, and Thomas Paine, the article clarifies and evaluates Hume's arguments against the rationality of belief in miracles. It judges Hume's a…Read more
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65The clearest guide to key concepts, all other things being equalThe Philosophers' Magazine 40 (40): 79-79. 2008.
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64Note to realistsThe Philosophers' Magazine 8 (8): 40-42. 1999.Many philosophers are little devoted to the love of wisdom. In only a merely “academic” way do they aspire to intellectual virtue. Even less often do they exhibit qualities of moral excellence. On the contrary, many philosophers, or what pass as philosophers, are, sadly, better described as petty social climbers, meretricious snobs, and acquisitive consumerists
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64On the 2007 Clarendon Critical Edition of David Hume's A Treatise of Human Nature (review)Hume Studies 33 (2): 289-296. 2007.
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63Show me the moneyThe Philosophers' Magazine 44 81-82. 2009.Many philosophers are little devoted to the love of wisdom. In only a merely “academic” way do they aspire to intellectual virtue. Even less often do they exhibit qualities of moral excellence. On the contrary, many philosophers, or what pass as philosophers, are, sadly, better described as petty social climbers, meretricious snobs, and acquisitive consumerists
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62Hume’s Radical Scepticism and the Fate of Naturalized Epistemology, written by Kevin MeekerInternational Journal for the Study of Skepticism 5 (3): 263-268. 2015.
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58Ideas, Evidence, and Method: Hume’s Skepticism and Naturalism concerning Knowledge and Causation, written by Graciela De PierrisInternational Journal for the Study of Skepticism 9 (4): 345-356. 2019.
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53The most useful column ever — and that claim’s indefeasibleThe Philosophers' Magazine 34 82-82. 2006.
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50Doubt and divinity: Cicero's influence on Hume's religious skepticismHume Studies 20 (1): 103-120. 1994.
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49Hume's Scepticism: Pyrrhonian and AcademicEdinburgh University Press. 2019.Peter S. Fosl offers a radical interpretation of Hume as a thoroughgoing sceptic on epistemological, metaphysical and doxastic grounds. He first contextualises Hume's thought in the sceptical tradition and goes on to interpret the conceptual apparatus of his work - including the Treatise, Enquiries, Essays, History, Dialogues and letters.
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47Catalina González Quintero, Academic Skepticism in Hume and Kant: A Ciceronian Critique of MetaphysicsJournal of Scottish Philosophy 21 (3): 307-312. 2023.
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