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ISBN-10 :  0190090359 

ISBN-13 :  9780190090357

Author: Deborah Boyle 

Scottish philosopher Lady Mary Shepherd (1777-1847) wrote two books that she conceived as one unified project: Essay Upon the Relation of Cause and Effect (1824) and Essays on the Perception of an External Universe (1827). While they were well received in her day, Shepherd’s insightful philosophical writings have been neglected for some 150 years and are only now receiving the scholarly attention they deserve. Mary Shepherd: A Guide by Deborah Boyle, part of the Oxford Guides to Philosophy series, navigates students of philosophy or general readers through Shepherd’s two significant works. The first four chapters address topics raised in the 1824 Essay: Shepherd’s arguments for two key causal principles, her objections to Hume and her alternative accounts of causation and causal inference; her theory of objects as bundles of qualities; her critique of Thomas Brown’s defence of Humean causation; and her discussion of London surgeon William Lawrence’s accounts of sentience and life, which Shepherd treats as a case study of how Humean theory can lead to errors in scientific reasoning. 

Mary Shepherd: A Guide 1st Table of contents:

1. Shepherd’s Life and Context
2. Causation
3. Induction, Objects, and the Uniformity of Nature
4. Causation, Sentience, and Life
5. Sensing and Reasoning
6. The External World
7. Skepticism and Idealism
8. Mind and Body
9. Religion
10. Vision

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