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Knowledge of the World as Perceived by David Hume

In five pages this paper discusses Hume's knowledge of the world theory and his rejection of causality and induction. One source ...

Knowledge of the World Theory of David Hume

In five pages this paper examines David Hume's philosophy regarding knowledge and how it is based upon immediate perceptual experi...

External Objects, Human Perception and the 'Representationalism' of John Locke

In six pages this research paper considers An Essay Concerning Human Understanding in an analysis of Locke's representation of how...

God, Understanding Morality, and David Hume

In five pages David Hume's definition of morality as a sympathy concept is applied to his contention that moral views do not stem ...

Testimonial Knowledge and Robert Audi

some strategy that starts from other beliefs that we have. Inference, for example, is such a strategy. One might infer that it is ...

David Hume on Whether or Not Tomorrow the Sun Will Rise

day. There is no reason to speculate that it will not rise tomorrow. Hence, there is a quandary. There is logic that considers sci...

Personal Identity of David Hume

or the perception of identity changes through time. For example, someone grows up and has certain experiences and perceptions and ...

Skeptical Human Understanding of David Hume

that the object of thought is capable of being. Hume understands that, quite simplistically, the soul is simply . . . the soul. ...

Religious Perspectives of Thomas Aquinas and David Hume

In five pages this paper contrasts the philosophical perspectives of David Hume and Thomas Aquinas regarding religion and ultimate...

Philosophical Perspectives on Passion and Human Happiness

In fourteen pages this paper examines how passion and human happiness were perceived from various philosophers spanning the sixtee...

Causation and the Philosophical Differences Between David Hume and Immanuel Kant

In six pages this paper discusses causation and knowledge in a consideration of the differences between the philosophies of David ...

Knowledge and Philosophy

This paper examines how philosophers David Hume, Plato, and Rene Descartes define knowledge in three pages with the cave allegory ...

Memory Role and Personal Identity

Loftus report that visitors to Disneyland had come to the conclusion that they met Bugs Bunny, but the rabbit is actually a Warner...

Morality According to Immanuel Kant and David Hume

the considerations surrounding his concepts of the mind and he supports his contentions with direct demonstrations of the applicab...

Knowledge Analysis by David Hume

personal desire to do so, rather than depending upon automatic reaction or stimulation. "The skeptic, therefore, had better keep ...

Knowledge and the Philosophies of Immanuel Kant, David Hume, Baruch Spinoza, and Rene Descartes

In six pages this paper examines how knowledge theories are philosophically conceptualized by Kant, Hume, Spinoza, and Descartes. ...

John Locke and David Hume on Knowledge

One will of course possess an impression from the sight, and supposes that there is a causal relationship between the flames and t...

Rene Descartes and David Hume on Knowledge

is real? Again, the Cartesian Cogito is something that resolves the problem for some. Still, this is a problem that many philosoph...

Morality and Knowledge According to Friedrich Nietzsche, David Hume, Immanuel Kant, and Rene Descartes

all that man can know, as well for the conduct of his life as for the preservation of his health and the discovery of all the arts...

God's Existence Cosmological Argument

be a less sure guide than revelation; however, Aquinas did believe it possible to reach certain truths without the aid of revelati...

Skepticism and Descartes' Cogito

questions that are not answered by the phrase "I think. Therefore I am." What if one does not think? Does that prove that he or sh...

Cosmological Argument of David Hume

with a wholly different sort of argument. He states that if the universe has an intelligent designer (i.e., the cosmological argum...

Skepticism and the Existence of God

is not particularly concerned with explaining the universe, but rather offers the argument to how that God exists. "You ask me, wh...

The Central Ideas of David Hume

have been the fact that the individual has MS or CP or some other disease. Another reason might have been that they simply were no...

David Hume's Epistemology

you, and by the cold reception which your pretended discoveries shall meet with, when communicated. Be a philosopher; but amidst ...

David Hume on Causation and Rational Belief

In three pages this paper discusses David Hume's philosophical belief that causation laid the foundation for rational belief with ...

David Hume's Perspectives and the Arguments of Thomas Nagel

In five pages this paper examines how David Hume's perspectives are addressed by Thomas Nagel in his arguments. Three sources are...

Miracles and David Hume

In six pages Scottish philosopher David Hume's skepticism concerning the existence of miracles is discussed which although interes...

Justice Rules and David Hume

In five pages this report assesses David Hume's attitudes regarding jusice and examines why he labels it as an artificial virtue b...

David Hume

controversial writings on religion and morality (Hume, 2002). In fact, he continued to turn out essays and critical writings on ev...