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Author Loeb, Louis E

Title Reflection and the stability of belief : essays on Descartes, Hume, and Reid / Louis E. Loeb
Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 369 pages)
Contents Machine generated contents note: 1. Is There Radical Dissimulation in Descartes' Meditations? (1986) -- 2. The Priority of Reason in Descartes (1990) -- 3. The Cartesian Circle (1992) -- 4. Sextus, Descartes, Hume, and Peirce: On Securing Settled Doxastic States (1998) -- 5. Integrating Hume's Accounts of Belief and Justification (2001) -- 6. Hume's Explanations of Meaningless Beliefs (2001) -- 7. Hume on Stability, Justification, and Unphilosophical Probability (1995) -- 8. Hume's Agent-centered Sentimentalism (2003) -- 9. What Is Worth Preserving in the Kemp Smith Interpretation of Hume? (2009) -- 10. Psychology, Epistemology, and Skepticism in Hume's Argument about Induction (2006) -- 11. Locke and British Empiricism (forthcoming) -- 12. The Naturalisms of Hume and Reid (2007)
Summary "This volume brings together twelve of Louis Loeb's articles on modern epistemology. Loeb places Descartes and Hume with Sextus and Peirce in a tradition that adopts psychological properties of belief as the standard for epistemic assessment. Increasingly naturalist investigation of the faculties lead Hume and Reid to reject, and even invert, Descartes' doctrine of reason's superiority to sense-perception"--Back cover
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Descartes, René, 1596-1650.
Hume, David, 1711-1776.
Reid, Thomas, 1710-1796.
SUBJECT Descartes, René, 1596-1650 fast
Hume, David, 1711-1776 fast
Reid, Thomas, 1710-1796 fast
Descartes, René 1596-1650 gnd
Hume, David 1711-1776 gnd
Reid, Thomas 1710-1796 gnd
Hume, David -- Erkenntnistheorie. idsbb
Descartes, René -- Erkenntnistheorie. idsbb
Reid, Thomas -- Erkenntnistheorie. idsbb
Descartes, René. idszbz
Hume, David. idszbz
Reid, Thomas. idszbz
Subject Reason.
Belief and doubt.
reason.
PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- General.
PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Modern.
Belief and doubt
Reason
Philosophie
Glaube.
Vernunft.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780199709311
0199709319