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David Hume Seminar

Class at Faculty of Humanities |
YBAJ035

Syllabus

* Mandatory:

HARRIS, J. Hume: An Intellectual Biography. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. pp. 438-459.

HUME, D. A Treatise of Human Nature. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007, pp. 7 - 22, 50 - 118, 164 - 178.

* Recommended:

HARRIS, J. (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of British Philosophy in the Eighteenth Century, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013, pp. 149 - 170.

TRAIGER, S. (ed.), The Blackwell Guide to Hume’s Treatise, London: Blackwell, 2005.

WRIGHT, J. P., Hume´s ´A Treatise of Human Nature ´, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009.

Annotation

Weekly Schedule:

1) Hume´s idea of experimental science of human nature (Introduction to A Treatise)

2) Hume´s idea of "science of man" and Malebranche´s critique of "experimental philosophy

3) Design of Hume´s A Treatise and its publishing history

4) Of the origin of ideas 1

5) Of the origin of ideas 2

6) Of knowledge and probability 1

7) Of knowledge and probability 2

8) Of knowledge and probability 3

9) Of the sceptical and others systems of philosophy 1

10) Of the sceptical and others systems of philosophy 2

11) Conclusions to the Book 1

12) Conclusions to Book 1 as a bridge to Book 2 – Of the Passions

13) Essay tutorial