Hume''s Presence in the Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion

This book is primarily a textual analysis that demonstrates the close relationship of David Hume's The Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion with David Hume's central philosophical writings and its centrality to his relationship with scepticism.

About the author

Robert J. Fogelin is Professor of Philosophy and Sherman Fairchild Professor in the Humanities at Dartmouth College. He is the author of Walking the Tightrope of Reason (OUP 2002), Hume's Skeptical Crisis (OUP 2009), Figuratively Speaking (OUP 2011), and more.

Summary

This book is primarily a textual analysis that demonstrates the close relationship of David Hume's The Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion with David Hume's central philosophical writings and its centrality to his relationship with scepticism.

Additional text

This is a thoughtful and useful volume. It is also clearly written and entertaining. Its readers cannot but come away with a tincture of Professor Fogelin's enthusiasm for Hume's Dialogues

Product details

• Authors: Robert Fogelin, Robert J. Fogelin, Robert J. (Professor of Philosophy Fogelin, Fogelin Robert J.
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2017
• EAN: 9780190673505
• ISBN: 978-0-19-067350-5
• No. of pages: 168
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; RELIGION / General, PHILOSOPHY / Religious, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Renaissance, Philosophy of religion, Western philosophy: c 1600 to c 1900, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought