- The first OPC volume to appear in print is “Efficient Causation – A History” edited by Tad Schmaltz.
#Hume causality series#
By engaging with non-Western traditions and carefully considering topics and materials which are not strictly philosophical, the collections from this series aim to render the history of philosophy accessible to a wide audience. The series presents itself as innovative along three main lines: its reexamination of the so-called “canon,” its reconsidering the value of interdisciplinary exchanges, and its encouraging philosophers to move beyond the current borders of philosophy.
) solutions to specific philosophical problems” (xiii). “Each OPC volume is a history of its concept in that it tells a story about changing (. efficient causation, health, evil, eternity, etc. To that end each volume will rethink a central concept in the history of philosophy, e.g. As the series’ Editor Christia Mercer notes, this series is an attempt to respond to the call for and the tendency of many philosophers to invigorate the discipline. ( shrink)Ī new series entitled Oxford Philosophical Concepts (OPC) made its debut in November 2014. 1.5: conceptual distinctions between used similarity tools and a few comments p. 1.4.3: abstract and very general ideas p. 1.4.2: the idea of necessary connection p. 1.4: case studies of cognitive trickery p. 1.2: on the origin of ideas + missing shade of blue p. Here is the thematic layout: 1.1: (very fictional) methodological introduction page 2. ) Advantages: helps focus on what similarity tools are apt to, I don’t have to worry about my Hume being merely MY Hume more fun. What’s disturbing: I write as if I were talking about the customs and beliefs of ancient tribes instead of real philosophers. Histories of doctrines are common in our discipline, not so for histories of tools this is what it’s about. It is the first part (out of four) of a monograph on the evolution of similarity toolmaking. It is chiefly a reconstruction (not always faithful) of Hume’s fundamental uses of notions of similarity, mostly based on Enquiry. – “By ideas I mean the pictures driving impressions in thinking and reasoning.This is partly fictional. It exists only in the mind of the beholder” Hume and Ideas: – “Beauty is not an intrinsic quality of things. – “The perceptions which enter with most force and violence, we can call them prints, and this term, I understand all our sensations, passions and emotions, as they make their first appearance in the soul” – “The ideas of cause and effect comes from the experience that informs us that such particular objects in all past cases, are conjoined with others when we pass from the impression of an object to the idea another, we are determined not by reason but by custom or principle of association ” Hume and impressions: – “It is not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the world to the scratching of my finger” Hume and causality: – “Man is a rational being, and as such it receives its food science and his own food, but the boundaries of human understanding are so narrow they can not hope on this little appreciation for the extent and for the safety of its acquisitions ” Here are few quotes and thoughts to help understanding his philosophy: Hume and human understanding: Following Newton, he has profoundly changed the way we consider knowledge, which comes from experience according to Hume.