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HUME’S EPISTEMOLOGY

AND METAPHYSICS

“This is an excellent book. Dicker concentrates squarely on Hume’s central arguments,

usefully assessing them as contributions to contemporary philosophical debates. He also

pays scrupulous attention to the texts, taking account of recent Hume scholarship but

remaining attentive to the needs of inexperienced students.”

Professor Gary Iseminger

Carleton College

Many of the current philosophical problems over meaning, knowledge, causality, and sense

perception can be traced to David Hume’s writings in his Treatise of Human Nature and

Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding.

Hume’s Epistemology and Metaphysics: An Introduction provides a clear, concise, and

accessible guide to the key themes in Hume’s philosophy Issues discussed include Hume’s

argument that there can be no purely rational demonstration of anything’s existence, so that

God cannot be proven to exist; that all our scientific knowledge rests on inferences from past

experiences that cannot be rationally justified; and that we cannot talk of causality apart from

natural science. Georges Dicker reveals the contemporary significance of these problems by

clearly and sharply analyzing Hume’s reasoning. Throughout, Hume’s arguments are also

placed against a historical background providing us with essential insight into his criticisms of

rationalism and his central place as a founder of empiricism.

Key features of the book also include discussion of Kant’s responses to Hume and

consideration of more recent responses to Hume’s philosophy, allowing the full significance

of his thought for contemporary philosophy to emerge.

Accessible to anyone coming to Hume’s philosophy for the first time, Hume’s Epistemology

and Metaphysics: An Introduction provides an ideal guide to the main themes in his writing.

Georges Dicker is Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Philosophy Department at the

State University of New York College at Brockport. He is author of Descartes: An Analytical

and Historical Introduction (1993), Perceptual Knowledge: An Analytical and Historical

Study (1980), and Dewey’s Theory of Knowing (1976).

HUME’S

EPISTEMOLOGY AND

METAPHYSICS

An Introduction

Georges Dicker

London and New York

First published 1998

by Routledge

11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE

Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada

by Routledge

29 West 35th Street, New York, NY 10001

This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2001.

any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter

invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval

system, without permission in writing from the publishers.

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data

Dicker, Georges, 1942–

Hume’s epistemology and metaphysics: an introduction/Georges Dicker.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 0-415-16318-8 (hb: alk. paper).

1. Hume, David, 1711–1776 – Contributions in theory of knowledge.

2. Hume, David, 1711–1776 – Contributions in metaphysics.

3. Knowledge, Theory of – History – 18th century.

4. Metaphysics – History – 18th century.

I. Title.

B1499.K7D53 1998

192–dc21 97–34891

CIP

ISBN 0-415-16318-8 (hbk)

ISBN 0-415-16319-6 (pbk)

ISBN 0-203-02071-5 Master e-book ISBN

ISBN 0-203-17461-5 (Glassbook Format)

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