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Descartes and Hume (review)

Descartes and Hume (review) Eric Matthews Hume Studies, Volume 7, Number 2, November 1981, pp. 181-183 (Review) Published by Hume Society DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/hms.2011.0596 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/389418/summary Access provided at 17 Feb 2020 18:44 GMT from JHU Libraries 181. Descartes and Hume. By Ezra Talmor. Oxford; Pergamon Press, 1980. Pp. xviii + 174. Price ài. 50 ($17.00).) Dr. Talmor challenges the conventional view of the relationship between the philosophies of Descartes and Hume. Hume, the extreme empiricist, thoroughgoing sceptic and radical subjectivist , is often seen as the more or less complete antithesis of Descartes, the anti-sceptical ration- alist who argued for the existence of a benevolent God as the guarantor of the objectivity of scientific knowledge. This view, however, according to Talmor, rests on a mis- guided view of both philosophers, derived more from the pre- occupations of twentieth-century analytical philosophy than from a sympathetic effort to see the two men against their own historical background and in terms of their own concerns. (Thus, Talmor has a good deal to say about the general prob- lems of writing the history of philosophy, as well as about the interpretation of Descartes and Hume themselves.) If seen in this way, Talmor http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Hume Studies Hume Society

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Eric Matthews Hume Studies, Volume 7, Number 2, November 1981, pp. 181-183 (Review) Published by Hume Society DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/hms.2011.0596 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/389418/summary Access provided at 17 Feb 2020 18:44 GMT from JHU Libraries 181. Descartes and Hume. By Ezra Talmor. Oxford; Pergamon Press, 1980. Pp. xviii + 174. Price ài. 50 ($17.00).) Dr. Talmor challenges the conventional view of the relationship between the philosophies of Descartes and Hume. Hume, the extreme empiricist, thoroughgoing sceptic and radical subjectivist , is often seen as the more or less complete antithesis of Descartes, the anti-sceptical ration- alist who argued for the existence of a benevolent God as the guarantor of the objectivity of scientific knowledge. This view, however, according to Talmor, rests on a mis- guided view of both philosophers, derived more from the pre- occupations of twentieth-century analytical philosophy than from a sympathetic effort to see the two men against their own historical background and in terms of their own concerns. (Thus, Talmor has a good deal to say about the general prob- lems of writing the history of philosophy, as well as about the interpretation of Descartes and Hume themselves.) If seen in this way, Talmor

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