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- Provides a fresh look at Hume’s epistemology
- Analyses the Cartesian, empiricist and Pyrrhonian roots of Hume’s scepticism
- Argues that scepticism blocked Hume’s effort to find suitable foundations of science
- Questions that philosophy played a unique role for Hume
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Philosophy (BRIEFSPHILOSOPH)
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Table of contents (5 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Authors and Affiliations
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The Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Philosophy, Prague, Czech Republic
Zuzana Parusniková
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: David Hume, Sceptic
Authors: Zuzana Parusniková
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Philosophy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43794-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s) 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-43792-7Published: 30 September 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-43794-1Published: 20 September 2016
Series ISSN: 2211-4548
Series E-ISSN: 2211-4556
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 126