Custom and Reason in Hume: A Kantian Reading of the First Book of the Treatise

by Henry E. Allison

Book Overview

Henry Allison examines the central tenets of Hume's epistemology and cognitive psychology, as contained in the Treatise of Human Nature. Allison takes a distinctive two-level approach. On the one hand, he considers Hume's thought in its own terms and historical context. So considered, Hume is viewed as a naturalist, whose project in the first three parts of the first book of the Treatise is to provide an account of the operation of the understanding...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199592020
• ISBN13: 9780199592029
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Length: 426 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"