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Hume's Scepticism: Pyrrhonian and Academic
Making a sharp break with dominant contemporary readings of David Hume's scepticism Peter S. Fosl offers an original and radical interpretation of Hume as a thoroughgoing sceptic on epistemological, metaphysical and doxastic grounds. He does this by first situating Hume's thought historically in the sceptical tradition and goes on to interpret the conceptual apparatus of his work - including the Treatise, Enquiries, Essays, History, Dialogues and letters.
Book Details
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- Publish Date: Oct 24th, 2019
- Pages: 392
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 9.10in - 6.20in - 1.00in - 1.45lb
- EAN: 9781474451123
- Categories: • Individual Philosophers• Epistemology• History & Surveys - Modern
About the Author
Fosl, Peter S.: - Peter Fosl is Professor of Philosophy at Transylvania University. He is co-author of The Philosopher's Toolkit, third edition (Wiley-Blackwell, forthcoming), The Ethics Toolkit (Wiley-Blackwell, 2007) and The Critical Thinking Toolkit (Wiley-Blackwell, 2017). He is co-editor of Commonplace Commitments: Thinking through the Legacy of Joseph P. Fell (Rowman & Littlefield, 2016), Classic Readings in Philosophy (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009), British Philosophers, 1800-2000 (Gale Research, 2002) and British Philosophers, 1500-1799 (Gale Research, 2002). He is editor of The Big Lebowski and Philosophy (Wiley-Blackwell, 2012). He received a David Hume Fellowship award from IASH, 2013-14, where the work on Hume's Scepticism began.
Praise for this book
Peter Fosl's Hume's Scepticism is the culmination and most successful accomplishment of a research program in Hume's scholarship started by Richard Popkin 80 years ago.--Jose Maia Neto "Analytica"
Peter Fosl presents an engaging and historically rich account of Hume's skepticism. For those readers interested in deepening their knowledge and understanding of Pyrrhonian and Academic skepticism, both in regard to their origins and their legacy, I highly recommend it.--Stefanie Rocknak, Hartwick College "Journal of the History of Philosophy"
A remarkably comprehensive study about the impact of Pyrrhonian and Academic scepticism on David Hume's philosophy ... Using the most recent scholarship to discuss both textual influences and philosophical nuances among different sceptical views, Fosl provides a thorough history of scepticism on which scholars could build on the future ... Fosl's book is novel, provocative and opens up paths for various possible lines of research in the history of scepticism ... Fosl has made a wonderful job of indicating some of the most relevant modern Academic sceptics' affinities. In addition to the very substantial questions his work raises, Fosl deftly shows in his book that, as a sceptic through and through, Hume examined probabilities concerning issues of science, metaphysics and religion, and remained non-dogmatic in all of his philosophical conclusions.--Catalina González, Universidad de los Andes "Sképsis: Revista de Filosofia"
No one else has gone as wide and as deep as Peter Fosl, who has taken a decisive stand on Hume as a radical sceptic. Nothing in philosophy is definitive, but this book will surely be a point of departure for studies of Hume's philosophy for a long time to come.--John Christian Laursen, University of California, Riverside