Book ID: CBB268233178

David Hume and the Culture of Scottish Newtonianism: Methodology and Ideology in Enlightenment Inquiry (2016)

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Demeter, Tamás (Author)


Brill
Brill's studies in intellectual history


Publication Date: 2016
Physical Details: 221 pages
Language: English

David Hume has a canonical place in the context of moral philosophy, but his insights are less frequently discussed in relation to natural philosophy. David Hume and the Culture of Scottish Newtonianism offers a discussion of Hume’s methodological and ideological commitments in matters of knowledge as reflected in his language and outlook. Tamás Demeter argues that several aspects of Hume’s moral philosophy reflect post-Newtonian tendencies in the aftermath of the Opticks, and show affinities with Newton-inspired Scottish physiology and chemistry. Consequently, when Hume describes his project as an 'anatomy of the mind' he uses a metaphor that expresses his commitment to study human cognitive and affective functioning on analogy with active and organic nature, and not with the Principia’s world of inert matter.

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Review Stefanie Rocknak (2019) Review of "David Hume and the Culture of Scottish Newtonianism: Methodology and Ideology in Enlightenment Inquiry". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 163-164). unapi

Review Stefanie Rocknak (2019) Review of "David Hume and the Culture of Scottish Newtonianism: Methodology and Ideology in Enlightenment Inquiry". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 163-164). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Stéphane Sarrade
Schliesser, Erick
Mills, R. J. W.
Stuart, Matthew
Schliesser, Eric
Jacovides, Michael
Concepts
Philosophy of science
Newtonianism
Methodology of science; scientific method
Natural philosophy
Physics
Moral philosophy
Time Periods
18th century
Enlightenment
17th century
19th century
Places
Scotland
England
France
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