The External World and Our Knowledge of It
David Hume is often considered to have been a sceptic, particularly in his conception of the individual''s knowledge of the external world. However, a closer examination of his works gives a much different impression of this aspect of Hume''s philosophy, one that is due for a thorough scholarly analysis. This study argues that Hume was, in fact, a critical realist in the early twentieth-century se...
David Hume is often considered to have been a sceptic, particularly in his conception of the individual''s knowledge of the external world. However, a closer examination of his works gives a much different impression of this aspect of Hume''s philosophy, one that is due for a thorough scholarly analysis. This study argues that Hume was, in fact, a critical realist in the early twentieth-century se...
