... how this affect derives partly from Thomas’s reckoning with David Hume. Thomas names Hume in a handful of poems as a figure who complicates and perhaps destroys a traditional vision of the world. But if Hume complicates thought, including theology, he empowers experience. For Thomas, this means...

..., moderate smoking, and heavy smoking) increases. Figure 2. Portrait of David Hume by Allan Ramsay, 1766. Currently at the Scottish National Gallery in Edinburgh, Scotland. Source: http://oll.libertyfund.org/index.php?option=com_staticxt&staticfile=show.php&person=231 . Image in the public domain...

... Hayes PJ The frame problem: artificial intelligence meets David Hume Reasoning Agents in a Dynamic World: The Frame Problem 1991 JAI Press 55 69 [12] Ford KM Hayes PJ Reasoning Agents in a Dynamic World: The Frame Problem 1991 JAI Press [13] Gabbay DM Woods J...

... by means of considering the particular relevance of David Hume’s thought for critical realism, emphasising his use of the concepts of belief and imagination both in establishing philosophical foundations and as being relevant for theory content. The notion...

...R. G. Frey Correspondence: R.G. Frey, Ph.D., Philosophy Department, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH 43403, USA. © Swets & Zeitlinger 1999 Abstract Anyone interested in the morality of suicide reads David Hume's essay on the subject even today. There are numerous reasons...

... ethics and the histories of Western medical ethics and bioethics pivot on Gregory — and, therefore, on Hume — as it does on few other figures. Key words: John Gregory, history of medical ethics, David Hume, moral physiology, sympathy. I. THE SYMPATHETIC PHYSICIAN We are all...

... justice from the prudent reflections of socially-encumbered selves. This provides a more accessible moral theory and a more realistic path to the establishment of universal access. health care David Hume justice moral philosophy John Rawls Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 0360-5310/99/2404...

..., but narrower than the WHO's. Christopher Boorse disease fact–value gap health David Hume moral sentiments Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 0360-5310/99/2404-0365$15.00 1999, Vol. 24, No. 4, pp. 365–375 © Swets & Zeitlinger Coming Home to Hume...

... the importance of humanistic education and professionalism to build patients’ trust. Key words: doctor-patient relationship, ethics, health care, David Hume, impartiality, justice, managed care, professionalism. According to medical traditions dating back to Hippocrates, physicians have duties to limit...

... sense, and moral sentiments. In the eighteenth century, thinkers such as Adam Smith, David Hume, Francis Hutcheson, and Thomas Reid contributed to the emergence of naturalistic, secular ethics by arguing that all humans—not only sophisticated individuals—were capable of distinguishing between right...

... on previously unused archival material, the chapter argues that Wilson added considerable force to a neoconservative, populist reading of Adam Smith’s and David Hume’s ideas of the “moral sense” and “moral sentiments.” Wilson took it as his task to explain to the American people why their moral sentiments...

... and the shared moral sentiments is flawed because of its confrontational anti-intellectual aspects. Instead, it might be best to consult the works of the eighteenth-century Scottish sentimentalists—David Hume and Adam Smith. The neoconservatives, in their populist celebration of everyman’s moral sentiments...

... Nature A Hume contiguity perception cognition ontology Platonism rationalism empiricism René Descartes Platonism John Locke David Hume Immanuel Kant cognition intuition Rationalism and empiricism both approach cognition through ideas. The previous chapter argued that the rationalist form...

... on the History of Philosophy Hegel representational realism Stang Nicholas ontology phenomenalism Immanuel Kant David Hume Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Plato idealism realism The critical philosophy, which is unusually complex, is in different ways both idealist and realist. It will be useful, before...

...Questions of value are inseparable from matters of translation, which presents in a sustainedly demanding form matters requiring vigilance of all users of language. In his two essays, ‘Of the Delicacy of Taste and Passion’ (1741) and ‘On the Standard of Taste’ (1757), David Hume expresses readiness...

... Barbara values Protagoras Copleston Frederick policy analyst David Hume is-ought problem trust Max Weber In the exercise of any human skill, any craft, there are particular matters that require special attention, that demand we take care. When driving, for example, we know...

...This chapter looks into Adam Smith's political thoughts influenced by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, David Hume, and Bernard Mandeville. It mentions Smith's intellectual context in 1750 when reviewing Rousseau's Second Discourse and publishing the Theory of Moral Sentiments...

... Georges Louis Leclerc D’Alembert Jean Baptiste le Rond Helvétius Claude Adrien Holbach Baron d’ Paul Henry Thiry Paine Tom Rousseau Jean Jacques Turgot Anne Robert Jacques Belief David Hume biography man of letters philosophy politics history religion The key to understanding Hume’s...

... infallibility certainty David Hume Thomas Reid In discussing Greek epistemology in Chapter 1 , one very important ancient philosophical school was left out: Scepticism. The reason that Scepticism needs to be discussed separately is not that it departs from the ‘traditional’ or ‘standard’ view revealed...

..., if and only if S can demonstratively identify O. Against this backdrop, an interpretation of the phrase ‘naïve realism’ and an answer to the argument from illusion are proposed. perception direct perception David Hume argument from illusion naïve realism Perception, or what we think of as perception...