Can Hume’s Impressions of Reflection Represent?
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Humean passions are of, for or about things – that is, they are intentional. However, Hume is also taken to claim, in a famous passage of A Treatise of Human Nature, that the passions do not represent anything (THN 2.3.3.5). Hume’s views in 2.3.3.5, and his views on intentionality of the passions, have been interpreted to be in tension with each another (Kenny 2003, Penelhum 1993, Cohon and Owen 1997, Sayre-McCord 1997, Baier 1991).
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تاریخ انتشار 2009