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Should Hume Be Answered or Bypassed?

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Marjorie Grene is among the most vigorous contemporary exponents of what she has called “the philosophical reform central to the thought of Bergson, Whitehead, Collingwood, Heidegger, and Merleau-Ponty. That is the reform which would make time the central category of metaphysics.”1

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Rorty, R. (1986). Should Hume Be Answered or Bypassed?. In: Donagan, A., Perovich, A.N., Wedin, M.V. (eds) Human Nature and Natural Knowledge. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol 89. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-5349-9_18

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