Philosophers Past and Present: Selected Essays

by Barry Stroud

This volume of uncollected essays by Barry Stroud explores central issues and ideas in the work of individual philosophers, ranging from Descartes, Berkeley, Locke, and Hume to Quine, Burge, McDowell, Goldman, Fogelin, and Sosa in our own day. Seven of the essays focus on David Hume, and examine the sources and implications of his "naturalism" and his "scepticism." Three others deal with the legacy of that "naturalism" in the twentieth century. In...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199608598
• ISBN13: 9780199608591
• Release Date: September 2011
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.7" x 8.6"