A Companion to Hume
ISBN: 9781444337860 | 1444337866
Edition: 1stFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Pub. Date: 5/31/2011
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Comprised of twenty-nine newly commissioned essays, A Companion to Hume examines the depth of the philosophies and influence of the legacies attributed to one of history's most remarkable thinkers. Demonstrates the range of Hume's work and illuminates the ongoing debates that it has generated.
David Hume's revolutionary philosophies took an empirical approach to the study of human nature. Controversial in his time, he was accused of everything from atheism to moral corruption; he has since been recognized as one of... MORE
David Hume's revolutionary philosophies took an empirical approach to the study of human nature. Controversial in his time, he was accused of everything from atheism to moral corruption; he has since been recognized as one of... MORE
| Notes on Contributors | |
| Acknowledgments | |
| Note on Citations | |
| Introduction | |
| Hume's Context | |
| Hume in the Enlightenment Tradition | |
| Mind and Knowledge | |
| Hume's Theory of Ideas | |
| Hume on Memory and Imagination | |
| Hume and the Origin of Our Ideas of Space and Time | |
| Hume on the Relation of Cause a... MORE | |
| Inductive Inference in Hume's Philosophy | |
| Hume on Belief in the External World | |
| Hume on Personal Identity | |
| Passions and Action | |
| Hume's Indirect Passions | |
| Hume on the Direct Passions and Motivation | |
| Hume on Liberty and Necessity | |
| Morality and Beauty | |
| Hume on Moral Rationalism, Sentimentalism, and Sympathy | |
| Sympathy and Hume's Spectator-centered Theory of Virtue | |
| Hume's Theory of Justice, or Artificial Virtue | |
| Hume on Beauty and Virtue | |
| Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals: Incomparably the Best? | |
| Religion | |
| Hume's Views on Religion: Intellectual and Cultural Influences | |
| Hume on the Nature and Existence of God | |
| Hume on Miracles and Immortality | |
| Economics, Politics, and History | |
| Hume's Economic Theory | |
| "One of the Finest and Most Subtile Inventions": Hume on Government | |
| "The Most Illustrious Philosopher and Historian of the Age": Hume's History of England | |
| Contemporary Themes | |
| Hume's Naturalism and His Skepticism | |
| Is Hume a Realist or an Anti-realist? | |
| Hume's Epistemological Legacy | |
| The Humean Theory of Motivation and Its Critics | |
| The Sources of Normativity in Hume's Moral Theory | |
| Hume's Metaethics: Is Hume a Moral Noncognitivist? | |
| Bibliography | |
| Index | |
| Table of Contents provided by Publisher. All Rights Reserved. |
Elizabeth S. Radcliffe is Professor of Philosophy at The College of William and Mary. She has published on the British Moralists and on Hume's metaethics and motivational psychology. She was co-editor of the journal Hume Studies, with Kenneth. Winkler, from 2000 until 2005. She is currently working on issues surrounding the contemporary Humean theory of motivation and its connection to Hume. .
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