Hume’s Science of Human Nature: Scientific Realism, Reason, and Substantial Explanation (Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Philosophy)

"Hume's Science of Human Nature is an investigation of the philosophical commitments undiferlying Hume's methodology in pursuing what he calls 'the science of human nature'. It argues that Hume undiferstands scientific explanation as aiming at explaining the inductively-established universal regularities discovered in experience via an appeal to the nature of the substance undiferlying manifest phenomena. For years, scholars have taken Hume to employ a deliberately shallow and demonstrably untenable notion of scientific explanation. By contrast, Hume's Science of Human Nature sets out to update our undiferstanding of Hume's methodology by using a more sophisticated picture of science as a model."--Provided by publisher Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Notes On Hume's Texts -- Introduction -- 1 Two Case Studies: The Impression-idea And Simple-complex Distinctions -- 2 Hume's Scientific Realism -- 3 The Course Of Science: Substance, Language, And Reason -- 4 The Science Of Body -- 5 Necessary Connection And Substantial Explanation -- 6 Explanation And Personal Identity In The Appendix -- Bibliography -- Index