Hume's Science of Human Nature: Scientific Realism, Reason, and Substantial Explanation

By David Landy

This book updates our understanding of Hume's scientific methodology by using a more sophisticated picture of science as a model. Landy argues that Hume is a kind of scientific realist who holds that science can and must employ theoretical representations of unobservable entities to explain the observed regularities of experience, and that we ar

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367891719
• ISBN13: 9780367891718
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 266 Pages
• Weight: 0.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"