David Hume and the Culture of Scottish Newtonianism

Methodology and Ideology in Enlightenment Inquiry

Bibliographic Data

ID8083908
AuthorsTamás Demeter (0000-0001-9202-5456, corresponding author)
Year2016
Publication date2016-09-12
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueDavid Hume and the Culture of Scottish Newtonianism (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherBrill (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1163/9789004327320
OpenAlexW4246723038
ISBN9789004327320
LanguageEN
Citations received26

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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