The New Hume

“…If the field were drawn more widely, it would be easy to add more would-be revolutionary readings, some equally surprising to traditionalists. 9 But for fecundity of novel in-8 The term 'New Hume' was originally due to Winkler (1991), but has since caught on more generally. Most of the main papers are to be found in The New Hume Debate, ed.…”

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confidence: 99%

I—Peter Millican: Humes Old and New Four Fashionable Falsehoods, and One Unfashionable Truth

Millican¹,

Beebee²

2007

Aristot Soc Suppl Vol

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Hume has traditionally been understood as an inductive sceptic with positivist tendencies, reducing causation to regular succession and anticipating the modern distinctions between analytic and synthetic, deduction and induction. The dominant fashion in recent Hume scholarship is to reject all this, replacing the ‘Old Hume’ with various New alternatives. Here I aim to counter four of these revisionist readings, presenting instead a broadly traditional interpretation but with important nuances, based especially on Hume's later works. He asked that we should treat these—notably the first Enquiry—as his authoritative philosophical statements, and with good reason.

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“…The use of this word may not be accidental. As Kenneth Winkler (2000) has shown, the use of the term 'supposition' and its cognates encompassed, in the early modern period, a very wide range of attitudes and propositions. Crucially one can even suppose (but not conceive or have a notion of) a contradiction, which is precisely what Berkeley thinks material object claims involve.…”

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confidence: 99%

X-Berkeley, the Ends of Language, and thePrinciples of Human Knowledge

Kail¹

2007

Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society (Hardback)

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This paper discusses some key connections between Berkeley's reflections on language in the introduction to his Treatise on the Principles of Human Knowledge and the doctrines espoused in the body of that work, in particular his views on vulgar causal discourse and his response to the objection that his metaphysics imputes massive error to ordinary thought. I argue also that there is some mileage in the view that Berkeley's thought might be an early form of non‐cognitivism.

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The New Hume

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I—Peter Millican: Humes Old and New Four Fashionable Falsehoods, and One Unfashionable Truth

X-Berkeley, the Ends of Language, and thePrinciples of Human Knowledge

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