O artigo avança a hipótese de que, na leitura Thomas Reid, o ceticismo David Hume apresentado no Tratado da natureza humana não é devido apenas à sua adoção ‘hipótese ideal’ – princípio que as ideias são objetos imediatos das operações mente –, mas também deriva outra fonte: dúvida sobre fiabilidade faculdades mentais, em específico, dos sentidos, memória e razão. Ademais, argumenta-se essa dis...

Causality refers to the relationship between events where one set of events (the effects) is a direct consequence of another set of events (the causes). Causal inference is the process by which one can use data to make claims about causal relationships. Since inferring causal relationships is one of the central tasks of science, it is a topic that has been heavily debated in philosophy, statist...

En este trabajo se discuten los argumentos que, de manera general, ofreció David Hume sobre el origen y fundamento del gobierno particular, la doctrina contractualista acerca gobierno. primera parte ensayo muestran algunas las dificultades que entraña concepto “contractualismo”, no obstante, ninguna obstaculizan blanco al respecto. segunda exhibe a decir Hume, es método correcto para embarcarse...

Nosso objetivo central neste artigo é mostrar como as seções of the reason animals sustentam a tese de uma naturalização da epistemologia Hume. Para tal, ele será dividido em três grandes partes. Na primeira, mostraremos Hume utilizou analogia fundamento para presupor continuidade entre faculdades intelectivas dos animais humanos e não humanos. segunda, indicaremos semelhanças que corroboram e,...

The subject of this paper is the place Hume in Nicholas Phillipson's account Scottish Enlightenment. I begin with reading as ‘civic moralist’. then turn to his author History England. And from there proceed intellectual biography Adam Smith. conclude a brief description understanding Hume's history Enlightenment it mutated late eighteenth century and came an end early nineteenth. show how just ...

The interest in exploring fame and the love of it relates not only to Hume’s autobiography where he hypothesises the love of literary fame as a key spur to his work, but also to 2.1.11 in the Treatise where Hume offers an account of praise and our delight in it as part of his theory of the passions. It is in this section that Hume first introduces us to the wondrous mechanism of sympathy, a not...

I defend the claim, made in a previous paper, that ‘a Humean can be a contractarian’, against the criticisms of Anthony de Jasay. Jasay makes a categorical distinction between ‘ordered anarchy’ (which he associates with Hume) and ‘social contract theory’. I argue that Hume’s political position was conservative, not anarchist. On Hume’s analysis, a convention is an implicit agreement; the concep...

Conventions fall into the domains of both philosophy and economics. In the study of convention, the interplay of the two disciplines has proved to be productive. As its practitioners often acknowledge, many of the key ideas in the modern theory of convention were first proposed by David Hume in his Treatise of Human Nature (1739–40/ 1978). Although Hume‟s Treatise is now usually classified as o...