Hume

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani presents Hume as the one who brings English empiricism to its completion, close to Kant1. He often comes back to Hume's critique of causality: the objective connection between phenomena is only a subjective link born of the habit of having seen one fact follow another23. He illustrates this with the example of billiard balls and with that of water boiling at 100 degrees, where the move from the "here and now" to the "everywhere and always" is an illegitimate leap from induction to deduction45. He sees in it a well-grounded scepticism: science works in fact, but it is not founded in principle6. In his view, Hume is the only one in the English tradition to judge this leap illegitimate. He links him above all to Kant, whom Hume wakes from his "dogmatic slumber" and who proves him wrong on the universality of laws78. He also mentions him among those Rousseau saw as leagued against him.

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