Name: Hume's Reason
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Author: David Owen

Type

Physical Book

Author

David Owen

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Year

2000

Language

English

Pages

248

Format

Hardcover

ISBN

0198238312

ISBN13

9780198238317

Edition No.

Synopsis "Hume's Reason "

David Owen explores Hume's account of reason and its role in human understanding, seen in the context of other notable accounts by philosophers of the early modern period. Many of the most famous problems that Hume discusses, and many of the positions that he advocates, are expressed in terms of reason. It is central to his arguments about induction, belief, scepticism, the passions, and moral distinctions; to understand Hume's influential views on these matters, we must understand what his view of reason is. The book begins with chapters on the theories of reasoning put forward by Hume's notable predecessors Descartes and Locke. Owen shows that Hume followed them in rejecting a formal, deductive account of inference, in favour of a new naturalistic account. But he went farther, in what we now call the argument concerning induction, by showing that no account of reason as a separate faculty could explain our inferences to beliefs in the unobserved. Hume offers instead an associationist account of probable reasoning and a new theory of belief. The picture of reason as an independent faculty is replaced with an explanation of reasoning in terms of properties of the imagination. Hume's Reason offers a new interpretation of some of Hume's central ideas, and a treatment of reason which will be illuminating not just to historians of modern philosophy but to all philosophers who are concerned with the workings of human cognition.

David Owen

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David Anthony Llewellyn Owen (Plymouth, 2 de julio de 1938) es un destacado político británico, médico de formación y miembro de la Cámara de los Lores, reconocido por su papel en el Partido Laborista y posteriormente por cofundar el Partido Socialdemócrata (SDP). Estudió medicina en la Universidad de Cambridge y St Thomas's Hospital, ejerciendo la neurología antes de dedicarse a la política.

Inició su carrera parlamentaria en 1966, ocupando cargos importantes bajo gobiernos laboristas, destacando como ministro de Sanidad (1974-1976) y secretario de Estado de Asuntos Exteriores y de la Commonwealth (1977-1979), siendo uno de los más jóvenes en el cargo. En 1981, descontento con el giro a la izquierda del Partido Laborista, cofundó el SDP, liderándolo entre 1983 y 1990.

En 1992 fue nombrado par vitalicio (Lord Owen) y actuó como negociador de paz de la UE en la antigua Yugoslavia (1992-1995), coautor del plan Vance-Owen. Además de su carrera política, es autor de varios libros, destacando En el poder y en la enfermedad (2008), donde analiza el impacto de las dolencias físicas y mentales en jefes de Estado. Se ha mantenido activo en política como independiente.

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