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Naturalism, Experience, and Hume’s ‘Science of Human Nature’ (2016)
Journal Article
Smith, B. (2016). Naturalism, Experience, and Hume’s ‘Science of Human Nature’. International Journal of Philosophical Studies, 24(3), 310-323. https://doi.org/10.1080/09672559.2016.1176389

A standard interpretation of Hume’s naturalism is that it paved the way for a scientistic and ‘disenchanted’ conception of the world. My aim in this paper is to show that this is a restrictive reading of Hume, and it obscures a different and profitab... Read More about Naturalism, Experience, and Hume’s ‘Science of Human Nature’.