PHILO-120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: David Hume, Empirical Evidence, Fallacy
1 Sep 2020
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David hume (1711 1776): the scottish skeptic. Empirical criterion of meaning: meaningful ideas are those that can be traced back to sense experience (impressions); beliefs that cannot be reduced to sense experience are not ideas at all but meaningless utterances. Topics: the limit of reason, the limit of science, the limit of theology, the limit of ethics. You don"t actually know what is going to happen unless it actually happens. How can you predict the future if knowledge is based on experience? . Bundle theory of the self: a humean theory that there is no fixed self but that the self is merely a bundle of perceptions ; a self is merely a habitual means for discussing certain perceptions. Stealing is wrong (most people don"t want to be a victim of theft) Stealing is good (criminals believe they are doing the right thing either for themselves or other people)
