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Humeanism refers to the
philosophy of
David Hume and to the
tradition of
thought inspired by him. Hume was an
influential eighteenth century Scottish...
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counterpart theory,
counterfactual causation, and the
position called "
Humean supervenience". Most
comprehensively in On the
Plurality of Worlds, Lewis...
- Hume's fork, in epistemology, is a
tenet elaborating upon
British empiricist philosopher David Hume's emphatic, 1730s
division between "relations of ideas"...
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philosophers working in meta-ethics, and is one of the main
proponents of a Neo-
Humean approach to
practical reason. In The
Moral Problem Smith diagnoses a longstanding...
- cost of
modal realism". In Preyer, G.; Siebelt, F. (eds.).
Reality and
Humean Supervenience:
Essays on the
Philosophy of
David Lewis.
Studies in Epistemology...
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applied in both
ethics and
general philosophy. It is
derived from the
Humean idea that all
judgements about the
world derive from
internal experience...
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variety of speculations. One
prominent interpretation among contemporary Humean scholarship is that this new "scene of thought" was Hume's
realisation that...
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influential in the
fields of metaethics,
where she
defends a
doctrine she
calls "
Humean Constructivism", a term she uses to
differentiate her work from the "Kantian...
- Look up
Humean or
humean in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
David Hume (1711–1776) was a
Scottish philisopher, economist, and historian.
David Hume may...
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psychological states and
causal relations, this
position is
considered to be a
Humean theory of action.
According to Davidson, it is not just the
bodily behavior...
