Imagined Causes: Hume's Conception of Objects

• Main Author: Rocknak, Stefanie. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: The New Synthese Historical Library ; 71
• Subjects: Philosophy (General).; Philosophy, modern.; Philosophy.; History of Philosophy.; Modern Philosophy.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-2187-6

This book provides the first comprehensive account of Humes conception of objects in Book I of A Treatise of Human Nature. What, according to Hume, are objects? Ideas? Impressions? Mind-independent objects? All three? None of the above? Through a close textual analysis, Rocknak shows that Hume thou...

Table of Contents:

• General Introduction.-�PART I: LAYING THE GROUNDWORK.-�1. Four Distinctions.-�2. Elementary Belief, Causally-Produced Belief and the Natural Relation of Causality
• 3. The Two Systems of Reality
• PART II: PERFECT IDENTITY AND THE TRANSCENDENTAL IMAGINATION
• 4. Proto-Objects
• 5. The First Account of Transcendental Perfect Identity: The Foundation of Secret Causes
• 6. A Mysterious Kind of Causation: The Second Account of Transcendental Perfect Identity
• 7. Unity, Number and Time: The Third Account of Transcendental Perfect Identity.-�PART III: IMAGINING CAUSES IN REACTION TO THE VULGAR: A PURELY PHILOSOPHICAL ENDEAVOR
• 8. The Vulgar Attempt to Achieve Perfect Identity
• 9. The Philosophers Reaction to the Vulgar: Imagined Causes Revisited
• 10. Personal Identity.-�PART IV: JUSTIFICATION
• 11. Three Unjustified Instances of Imagined Causes: Substances, Primary Qualities and the Soul as an Immaterial Object
• 12. Conclusion.-�Bibliography
• Index.