Humean Bodies and their Consequences

Ruth Weintraub is Professor of Philosophy at Tel-Aviv University. Her publications include The Sceptical Challenge (1997), as well as articles in epistemology, on paradoxes and the philosophy of David Hume.

• Part I: Interpretation.- Chapter 1. Interpreting Hume on Bodies.- Chapter 2. Arguments in Support of the Idealist Interpretation.- Chapter 3. Meeting Objections to the Idealist Interpretation.- Part II: Metaphysical Consequences of the Idealist Interpretation.- Chapter 4. Consequences of the Idealist Interpretation for the Unity of Space.- Chapter 5: Consequences of the Idealist Interpretation for Causation.- Part III: Consequences of the Idealist Interpretation for Hume’s Science of Man.- Chapter 6. Spatial and Causal Thoughts from an Idealist Point of View.- Part IV: Consequences of the Idealist Interpretation for Hume’s Methodology.- Chapter 7. The Idealist Interpretation Renders Hume More of an Empiricist.