My aim in this paper is to present what I consider to be the decisive objection against the ‘New Hume’ Causal realist interpretation of Hume, and to refute three recent attempts to answer this objection. I start in §1 with an outline of the ‘Old’ and ‘New’ interpretations. Then §2 sketches the traditional case in favour of the former, while §3 presents the decisive objection to the latter, base...

First, Hume notes that we have a strong inclination to call something the “same” even when it is radically different. For instance, remove a chunk of matter from some object and we call it the same. A mature oak tree is said to be the “same” as the sapling. A fat adult is said to be the “same” as the tiny infant. So strong is this inclination that philosophers have attempted to explain identity...

Os artigos aqui reunidos foram apresentados no “I Colóquio Hume”, realizado nos dias 27 a 29 de julho de 2002 no Departamento de Filosofia da UFMG. O colóquio foi promovido pelo grupo de pesquisa “Hume” do Departamento, com apoio do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Filosofia e da Faculdade de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas da UFMG, CAPES, FAPEMIG, PAIE/ UFMG, e dos Programas de Pós-Graduação em Filos...

Hume y la causalidad contiene un análisis completo detallado del abordaje de en filosofía Hume. Tal como Jerónimo Narváez lo demuestra, no desemboca callejón sin salida escéptico sino que nos orienta a consideración aspectos racionales intervienen formación las creencias, hace aporte complejización noción conocimiento brinda elementos normativos para evaluación los diversos tipos creencias caus...

David Hume (1711-1776) was a Scottish philosopher who challenged many of the metaphysical and epistemological orthodoxies of the Modern age. His primary targets were his predecessors Descartes and John Locke. Rather than penetrating to the true essence of reality, Hume saw human thought as largely a practical faculty much imbued with habit. His critique of human knowledge, in particular, remain...

Converting programs from full or PR-Hume to FSMor HW-Hume involves transforming expression recursion to box iteration. However, this can add considerable overheads through unnecessary scheduling of other boxes dependent on the iteration output. Here we explore how analysis of output behaviour can identify boxes which may be executed independently of normal super-step scheduling, without affecti...