{"product_id":"custom-and-reason-in-hume","title":"Custom and Reason in Hume","description":"\u003cp\u003eHenry Allison examines the central tenets of Hume's epistemology and cognitive psychology, as contained in the Treatise of Human Nature. Allison takes a distinctive two-level approach. On the one hand, he considers Hume's thought in its own terms and historical context. So considered, Hume is viewed as a naturalist, whose project in the first three parts of the first book of the Treatise  is to provide an account of the operation of the\n\u003cbr\u003eunderstanding in which reason is subordinated to custom and other non-rational propensities. Scepticism arises in the fourth part as a form of metascepticism, directed not against first-order beliefs, but against philosophical\n\u003cbr\u003eattempts to ground these beliefs in the \"space of reasons.\" On the other hand, Allison provides a critique of these tenets from a Kantian perspective. This involves a comparison of the two thinkers on a range of issues, including space and time, causation, existence, induction, and the self. In each case, the issue is seen to turn on a contrast between their underlying models of cognition. Hume is committed to a version of the perceptual model, according to which the paradigm of knowledge is a\n\u003cbr\u003eseeing with the \"mind's eye\" of the relation between mental contents. By contrast, Kant appeals to a discursive model in which the fundamental cognitive act is judgment, understood as the application\n\u003cbr\u003eof concepts to sensory data, Whereas regarded from the first point of view, Hume's account is deemed a major philosophical achievement, seen from the second it suffers from a failure to develop an adequate account of concepts and judgment.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44086559965422,"sku":"9780199532889","price":217.34,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0630\/9612\/7726\/files\/9780199532889.jpg?v=1706213750","url":"https:\/\/bookland.com.au\/products\/custom-and-reason-in-hume","provider":"Book Land AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}