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Between Hume's Philosophy and History

Historical Theory and Practice

By: Spencer K. Wertz

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Between Hume's Philosophy and History

Historical Theory and Practice

By: Spencer K. Wertz

This book explores the historical dimension of David Hume's philosophy, a feature that Spencer Wertz calls 'historical empiricism.' According to Wertz, Hume sought to understand the present in terms of the past in a way that anticipates the historical constructionism of R.G. Collingwood and Herbert Butterfield. Hume's method is to tell a story about something's origin in which ideas yield impressions. These impressions eventually yield to experience that includes history as part of its structure. Arguing that Hume worked between history and philosophy, Wertz demonstrates that Hume's historical empiricism consists of four key concepts. These concepts are history, human nature, experience, and nature, all of which play a role in historical narration, taste, moral judgments, and the historiography of science. Bringing new insights to the study of Hume's work, this book will be an important resource for scholars of philosophy.

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University Press of America

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0761815449

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9780761815440

Food and Philosophy

Selected Essays

By: Spencer Wertz

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Food and Philosophy

Selected Essays

By: Spencer Wertz

These essays on food and philosophy were written over several decades. Not only philosophers and historians but individuals who have an ongoing interest in food should relish them. The essays cover wide-ranging topics that include genetically modified organisms, chocolate and its world, food as art, the pornography of food, and the five flavors of Chinese cuisine. In addition, there are several chapters that deal with the refinement of erudite (professional) cuisine from popular (regional) cuisine in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in Europe. One chapter stands alone as an analysis of the Native American cultural foundations of maize. The book opens with an essay on the philosophy of food history that addresses three fundamental problems: the duplication of sensations and taste, the understanding of recipes from other historical periods, and the sorts of judgments that are included or excluded in a historical narrative. The book ends with an exposition of R. G. Collingwood’s anthropology of eating and dining, which completes the discussion with an analysis of the magical symbolism of those cultural activities.

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Texas A&M University Press

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0875656447

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9780875656441

Food and Philosophy

Selected Essays

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Selected Essays

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Between Hume's Philosophy and History

Between Hume's Philosophy and History

Food and Philosophy

Food and Philosophy

Food and Philosophy

Food and Philosophy

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