Philosophers Past and Present: Selected Essays

Author/Contributor(s):	Stroud, Barry
Publisher:	Oxford University Press, USA
Date:	09/05/2011
Binding:	Hardcover
Condition:	NEW

This volume of uncollected essays by Barry Stroud explores central issues and ideas in the work of individual philosophers, ranging from Descartes, Berkeley, Locke, and Hume to Quine, Burge, McDowell, Goldman, Fogelin, and Sosa in our own day. Seven of the essays focus on David Hume, and
examine the sources and implications of his naturalism and his scepticism. Three others deal with the legacy of that naturalism in the twentieth century. In each case Stroud moves beyond providing a description of historical contexts and developments, and confronts the philosophical issues as
they present themselves to the philosophers in question.