Space and self in Hume's Treatise / Marina Frasca-Spada.
Pubblicazione:
Cambridge : Cambridge university press, 1998.
Descrizione fisica:
XIII, 220 p. ; 24 cm
Contiene:
Indice: Acknowledgments. Abbreviations. Introduction. Pt. 1. The two parts of Hume's system of space, the centrality of the self: 1. Reality and the coloured points: sections 1-2 against infinite divisibility 2. A bundle of (organised) perceptions: section 3 on the origin of the idea of space. Intermezzo: The minds of an author and his readers. Pt. 2. Hume's objections answer D: clues to the operations of the mind: 3. Truth, passion, and the a priori: section 4 and the problem of geometry 4. Talking about a vacuum: the paradoxes of empty space in section 5. Conclusion: Space and the self. Bibliography. Index