Prescription, Description, and Hume's Experimental Method.
There seems a potential tension between Hume's naturalistic project and his normative ambitions. Hume adopts what I call a methodological naturalism: that is, the methodology of providing explanations for various phenomena based on natural properties and causes. This methodology takes the form of in...
| Publicado en: | British Journal for the History of Philosophy Vol. 24; no. 2; pp. 279 - 302 |
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