Hume's Theory of Consciousness

by Wayne Waxman

This book offers a comprehensive analysis and re-evaluation of Hume's Treatise of Human Nature. Kant viewed Hume as the sceptical destroyer of metaphysics. Yet for most of this century the consensus among interpreters is that for Hume scepticism was a means to a naturalistic, anti-sceptical end. The author seeks here to achieve a balance by showing how Hume's naturalism leads directly to a kind of scepticism even more radical than Kant imagined. In...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521541182
• ISBN13: 9780521541183
• Release Date: September 2003
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 364 Pages
• Weight: 1.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"