Matias Slavov is Postdoctoral Researcher at Tampere University, Finland

Slavov’s highly engaging and valuable book puts pressure on the still-dominant depiction of David Hume as a proto-cognitive psychologist. Slavov turns our attention back to Hume the philosopher. But this is not the Hume whose radical empiricist philosophy collapses under its own skeptical weight. Slavov impressively reveals to us a philosophical system that is not only inextricably linked with the history of natural philosophy, but also, and more fundamentally, is intellectually engaged with the natural philosophy and physical science of its time.

• IntroductionPrefaceAcknowledgements1. The Concept of Natural Philosophy2. Science of Humanity and Natural Philosophy3. Experimentalism 4. Laws of Nature, Causation, and the Ontology of Forces5. The Relation of Mathematics to Nature 6. Space and Time7. Hume’s ImpactBibliographyIndex

Matias Slavov is Postdoctoral Researcher at Tampere University, Finland

Slavov’s highly engaging and valuable book puts pressure on the still-dominant depiction of David Hume as a proto-cognitive psychologist. Slavov turns our attention back to Hume the philosopher. But this is not the Hume whose radical empiricist philosophy collapses under its own skeptical weight. Slavov impressively reveals to us a philosophical system that is not only inextricably linked with the history of natural philosophy, but also, and more fundamentally, is intellectually engaged with the natural philosophy and physical science of its time.

• IntroductionPrefaceAcknowledgements1. The Concept of Natural Philosophy2. Science of Humanity and Natural Philosophy3. Experimentalism 4. Laws of Nature, Causation, and the Ontology of Forces5. The Relation of Mathematics to Nature 6. Space and Time7. Hume’s ImpactBibliographyIndex

Matias Slavov is Postdoctoral Researcher at Tampere University, Finland

Slavov’s highly engaging and valuable book puts pressure on the still-dominant depiction of David Hume as a proto-cognitive psychologist. Slavov turns our attention back to Hume the philosopher. But this is not the Hume whose radical empiricist philosophy collapses under its own skeptical weight. Slavov impressively reveals to us a philosophical system that is not only inextricably linked with the history of natural philosophy, but also, and more fundamentally, is intellectually engaged with the natural philosophy and physical science of its time.

• IntroductionPrefaceAcknowledgements1. The Concept of Natural Philosophy2. Science of Humanity and Natural Philosophy3. Experimentalism 4. Laws of Nature, Causation, and the Ontology of Forces5. The Relation of Mathematics to Nature 6. Space and Time7. Hume’s ImpactBibliographyIndex