2013
DOI: 10.1017/cbo9781316530405
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Hume's Intentions

Abstract: John Passmore (1914–2004) was a renowned Australian empirical philosopher and historian of ideas. In this book, which was originally published in 1952, Passmore's intention was to disentangle certain main themes in Hume's philosophy and to show how they relate to Hume's main philosophic purpose. Rather than offering a detailed commentary, the text provides an account based on specificity and critical scholarship, seeking to complement the other more comprehensive works on Hume's philosophy that had become avai… Show more

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“…I will set these issues aside in the discussion that follows. My humility in advancing any sort of interpretation has been reinforced by the insights gained from reading the following articles and books: Hearn, 1970; Falkenstein, 1997; Passmore, 1952; Loeb, 2002. (Many thanks to Ken Winkler for guidance concerning this literature.…”
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“…I will set these issues aside in the discussion that follows. My humility in advancing any sort of interpretation has been reinforced by the insights gained from reading the following articles and books: Hearn, 1970; Falkenstein, 1997; Passmore, 1952; Loeb, 2002. (Many thanks to Ken Winkler for guidance concerning this literature.…”
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“…The bad repute of this account – it has been described as ‘notoriously weak’ (MacNabb, , 41), ‘most unsatisfactory’ (Price, , 5), and even as ‘inconsistent in epic proportions’ (Passmore, , 94) – owes mostly to Hume's lack of clarity on the relation between the two criteria. Hume is unclear on whether he ultimately maintains or revokes the criterion of correspondence to the past.…”
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“…John Passmore interprets Hume's frequent appeals to ‘impressions of the memory’ throughout the Treatise (e.g., T 1.3.4.1 SBN 82‐83; T 1.3.5.1 SBN 84; T 1.3.6.6‐7 SBN 89; T 1.3.9.7 SBN 110; T 2.3.1.17 SBN 406) as inconsistent with his official classification of memories as ideas (Passmore, , 96). However, given that when Hume first introduces the locution he prefaces it by mentioning that he regards memories as equivalent to impressions (T 1.3.4.1 SBN 82‐83), ‘impression of the memory’ should not be interpreted literally, as suggesting that memories are impressions, but instead as shorthand for ‘impression‐equivalent memory idea .’…”
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“…As John Passmore notes, there appear to be many intentions. 19 But the one interpretation of Hume that many scholars today favor is that of Hume as a descriptive cognitive scientist, or as a "mental geographer," to invoke once again Hume's phrase from the Enquiry. According to this reading, Hume is principally engaged in an examination of the nature of our ideas and the processes of reasoning, and his discoveries within his domain of inquiry are not meant to have implications for the other sciences.…”
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