Abstract:The title of Stefanie Rocknak's book—Imagined Causes: Hume's Conception of Objects—neatly and concisely captures the book's central claim: Hume holds that thinking about objects is a matter of imagining the causes of our perceptions. Rocknak argues that in giving an account of how we think about objects, Hume is engaged in a transcendental project. My comments focus fairly narrowly on this central thesis, which unfortunately means that I have set aside a great deal of interesting material in the book, including Rocknak's provocative and challenging interpretations of Hume's views about the nature of mental representation, time, and justification. I propose to focus on three related issues: First, I consider the sense in which, on Rocknak's view, Hume is engaged in a kind of transcendental project, and raise some questions about how to understand Rocknak's view about this project. Second, I want to raise some questions about how to understand the claim that conceiving of objects, for Hume, is a matter of imagining causes. Finally, I will look more closely at some of the evidence that Rocknak appeals to in support of this interpretation, and suggest that the interpretation faces two challenges. I invite Rocknak to say more about these challenges in her reply.
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{"title":"Précis of Hume: An Intellectual Biography","authors":"James A. Harris","doi":"10.1353/hms.2019.0014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hms.2019.0014","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29761,"journal":{"name":"Hume Studies","volume":"45 1","pages":"3 - 5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47033715","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Hume as Man of Letters: Comments on Harris's Hume: An Intellectual Biography","authors":"Catherine M. Jones","doi":"10.1353/hms.2019.0015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hms.2019.0015","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29761,"journal":{"name":"Hume Studies","volume":"45 1","pages":"16 - 7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46012871","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Hume as a Social Theorist: Comments on Taylor's Reflecting Subjects","authors":"W. Lemmens","doi":"10.1353/hms.2019.0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hms.2019.0008","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29761,"journal":{"name":"Hume Studies","volume":"45 1","pages":"147 - 159"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42690389","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reply to My Critics","authors":"James A. Harris","doi":"10.1353/hms.2019.0018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hms.2019.0018","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29761,"journal":{"name":"Hume Studies","volume":"45 1","pages":"37 - 45"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48225148","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
1. Michele Loi’s paper consists in two points focusing on generational savings during Rawls’s steady state stage. First, Loi recognizes my departure from a prohibition on generational savings in case of unanimity on such positive savings, i.e. whenever there is no veto by the least well o!. Loi argues that parties under the veil of ignorance know that they could be benevolent parents willing to sacri"ce themselves for their children, and for the children of others too. #ey should therefore reject the prohibition on savings. What probably is at stake here is what risk-averse parties should fear the most: being benevolent towards the future more than towards one’s contemporaries and ending up being prevented to act on such preferences, or being today’s least well o! and having to accept that what could make me better o! will end up in the pockets of richer future persons. It is not clear why the former should be feared more than the latter. Loi’s main argument here seems to be the following: not allowing for generational savings is illiberal and allowing for a departure from such a prohibition only in case of agreement of the least well o! will not do, because “consent in actual circumstances cannot make intergenerational saving just, unless they are permissible to begin with” (p. 7, – also p. 10). However, one could easily
{"title":"Reply to My Critics","authors":"Stefanie Rocknak","doi":"10.1353/hms.2019.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hms.2019.0001","url":null,"abstract":"1. Michele Loi’s paper consists in two points focusing on generational savings during Rawls’s steady state stage. First, Loi recognizes my departure from a prohibition on generational savings in case of unanimity on such positive savings, i.e. whenever there is no veto by the least well o!. Loi argues that parties under the veil of ignorance know that they could be benevolent parents willing to sacri\"ce themselves for their children, and for the children of others too. #ey should therefore reject the prohibition on savings. What probably is at stake here is what risk-averse parties should fear the most: being benevolent towards the future more than towards one’s contemporaries and ending up being prevented to act on such preferences, or being today’s least well o! and having to accept that what could make me better o! will end up in the pockets of richer future persons. It is not clear why the former should be feared more than the latter. Loi’s main argument here seems to be the following: not allowing for generational savings is illiberal and allowing for a departure from such a prohibition only in case of agreement of the least well o! will not do, because “consent in actual circumstances cannot make intergenerational saving just, unless they are permissible to begin with” (p. 7, – also p. 10). However, one could easily","PeriodicalId":29761,"journal":{"name":"Hume Studies","volume":"45 1","pages":"77 - 93"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42056728","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reply to My Critics","authors":"Jacqueline A. Taylor","doi":"10.1353/hms.2019.0011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hms.2019.0011","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29761,"journal":{"name":"Hume Studies","volume":"45 1","pages":"179 - 186"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41953049","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Comments on Rocknak's Imagined Causes","authors":"Donald L. M. Baxter","doi":"10.1353/hms.2019.0020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hms.2019.0020","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29761,"journal":{"name":"Hume Studies","volume":"45 1","pages":"51 - 58"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43097644","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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