The Reluctant Revolutionary: An Essay on David Hume's Account of Necessary Connection

by Alan Schwerin

David Hume's eminence as a philosopher, most notably as a critical investigator of issues in metaphysics, is beyond dispute. Yet his contributions to a concern he regarded as central to metaphysics - namely, the question on the status of necessary connections, or powers - is less widely appreciated, and subject to divergent and conflicting interpretations. The Reluctant Revolutionary is an attempt to develop, through close textual analysis...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820407577
• ISBN13: 9780820407579
• Release Date: July 1989
• Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W
• Length: 160 Pages