This volume of uncollected essays by Barry Stroud explores central ideas in the work of individual philosophers from Descartes, Berkeley, and Locke to Quine, Burge, McDowell, Goldman, Fogelin, and Sosa. Stroud confronts a series of philosophical issues, and examines the sources, implications, and legacy of Hume's 'naturalism' and 'scepticism'. INDICE: Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1: Our Debt to Descartes (2008); 2: Berkeley v. Locke on Primary Qualities (1980); 3: Colours and Powers (2003);4: The Study of Human Nature and the Subjectivity of Value (1989); 5: Hume's Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (2004); 6: Ayer's Hume (1992); 7: Hume's Scepticism: Natural Instincts and Philosophical Reflection (1991); 8: 'Gilding or Staining' the World with 'Sentiments' or 'Phantasms' (1993); 9: The Constraints of Hume's Naturalism (2006); 10: Practical Reasoning (1996); 11: The Charm of Naturalism (1996); 12: The Transparency of 'Naturalism' (2008); 13: Anti-Individualism and Scepticism (1993); 14: Sense-Experience and the Groundingof Thought (2002); 15: The 'Unity of Cognition' and the Explanation of Mathematical Knowledge (2001); 16: Contemporary Pyrrhonism (2001); 17: Perceptual Knowledge and Epistemological Satisfaction (2004); Index
- ISBN: 978-0-19-960859-1
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 336
- Fecha Publicación: 01/06/2011
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés