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How can one in principle distinguish causality from observed regularity?
Hume showed that one cannot infer cause & effect in nature by induction alone. We only notice that when event A occurs then so does event B.
If event A always occurs before event B we are still ...
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Should philosophers be concerned about the political implications of the theories of other philosophers (as well as their own)?
Edward Said writes in his book Orientalism
Similarly-as Harry Bracken has been tirelessly showing-philosophers will conduct their discussions of Locke, Hume, and empiricism without ever taking ...
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Hume's position on Moral Judgement
I am reading some extracts from Hume's "treaties" and some papers which have been released on them, but I still do not fully understand Hume's position on moral judgement.
Hume states that moral ...
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What is Kant’s strategy to overcome Humean skepticism without having recourse to the metaphysical excesses of rationalism?
I understand that by metaphysical excesses, he meant supernatural entities, such as God, or the soul, to explain things in the phenomenal world.
Also, to my understanding, Hume's skepticism boils ...
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Why do we need a reason for believing that inductive method is necessarily true?
I've been a bit perplexed about the "problem" of induction.
Hume challenges other philosophers to come up with a deductive reason
for the inductive connection. If the justification of induction ...
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How can I know that I am not immortal?
You think that you will die just because everyone dies. And you would like to know if you are immortal. How can you know if you are immortal or not?
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Hume eliminated cause & effect, is this verified by our best physical scientific theories?
Hume shows that experience, when looked at rigorously, gives us no information about cause & effect. At most he permits only that two events are simultaneous. Is this reflected in our best ...
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How long should it take to read and understand the intro to 'A Treatise of Human Nature'?
Today I read the intro to 'A Treatise of Human Nature' by David Hume. I'm somewhat new to reading Philosophical texts and I have never read Hume before. The intro is 1936 words long. I took decent ...
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Is the notion in Hume that you cannot deduce an “ought” from “is” related to his assertion that reason must be the servant of the passions?
I hear it asserted that David Hume said one cannot deduce an "ought" from an "is". I also find it asserted that he said reason must be only the servant of the passions.
I had long uncritically ...
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Contradiction between belief in cause and effect & belief in the continued existence of matter
In A Treatise of Human Nature, section 1.4.7 (the conclusion of part 1), Hume states that there are some circumstances in which belief in the continued existence of matter and the belief in cause and ...
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Does Karl Popper's work address the Principle of Uniformity of Nature?
It seems to me that Popper's solution does not address the more difficult problem of induction that Hume calls the Principle of Uniformity of Nature. In other words, we might find evidence against a ...
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What did David Hume mean when he said that “reason is a slave to the passions”?
I don't understand the meaning of this oft-quoted quotation of Hume's in On Reason, namely his saying that "reason is a slave to the passions." What exactly does he mean by that ? Is it simply that ...
