Philosophers Past and Present: Selected Essays

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.


Author: Barry Stroud
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 09/05/2011
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.14lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.70w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9780199608591

About the Author

Barry Stroud is Willis S. and Marion Slusser Professor of Philosophy in the University of California, Berkeley. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy, and the author of Hume (1977), The Significance of Philosophical Scepticism (OUP, 1984), The Quest for Reality (OUP, 2000), and two collections of essays, Understanding Human Knowledge (OUP, 2000) and Meaning, Understanding, and Practice (OUP, 2000).

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