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Comprised of twenty-nine specially commissioned essays, A Companion to Hume examines the depth of the philosophies and influence of one of history's most remarkable thinkers.

  • Demonstrates the range of Hume's work and illuminates the ongoing debates that it has generated
  • Organized by subject, with introductions to each section to orient the reader
  • Explores topics such as knowledge, passion, morality, religion, economics, and politics
  • Examines the paradoxes of Hume's thought and his legacy, covering the methods, themes, and consequences of his contributions to philosophy


Table of Contents:

Notes on Contributors viii

Acknowledgments xii

Note on Citations xiii

Introduction 1

Hume’s Context 19

1 Hume in the Enlightenment Tradition 21
Stephen Buckle

Part I Mind and Knowledge 39

2 Hume’s Theory of Ideas 41
Don Garrett

3 Hume on Memory and Imagination 58
Saul Traiger

4 Hume and the Origin of Our Ideas of Space and Time 72
Wayne Waxman

5 Hume on the Relation of Cause and Effect 89
Francis Watanabe Dauer

6 Inductive Inference in Hume’s Philosophy 106
Louis E. Loeb

7 Hume on Belief in the External World 126
Michel Malherbe

8 Hume on Personal Identity 140
Donald C. Ainslie

Part II Passions and Action 157

9 Hume’s Indirect Passions 159
Rachel Cohon

10 Hume on the Direct Passions and Motivation 185
Tito Magri

11 Hume on Liberty and Necessity 201
John Bricke

Part III Morality and Beauty 217

12 Hume on Moral Rationalism, Sentimentalism, and Sympathy 219
Charlotte R. Brown

13 Sympathy and Hume’s Spectator-centered Theory of Virtue 240
Kate Abramson

14 Hume’s Theory of Justice, or Artificial Virtue 257
Eugenio Lecaldano

15 Hume on Beauty and Virtue 273
Jacqueline Taylor

16 Enquiry concerning the Principles of Morals: Incomparably the Best? 293
Annette C. Baier

Part IV Religion 321

17 Hume’s Views on Religion: Intellectual and Cultural Influences 323
Terence Penelhum

18 Hume on the Nature and Existence of God 338
Martin Bell

19 Hume on Miracles and Immortality 353
Michael P. Levine

Part V Economics, Politics, and History 371

20 Hume’s Economic Theory 373
Tatsuya Sakamoto

21 “One of the Finest and Most Subtile Inventions”: Hume on Government 388
Richard H. Dees

22 “The Most Illustrious Philosopher and Historian of the Age”: Hume’s History of England 406
Mark Salber Phillips

Part VI Contemporary Themes 423

23 Hume’s Naturalism and His Skepticism 425
Janet Broughton

24 Is Hume a Realist or an Anti-realist? 441
P. J. E. Kail

25 Hume’s Epistemological Legacy 457
William Edward Morris

26 The Humean Theory of Motivation and Its Critics 477
Elizabeth S. Radcliffe

27 The Sources of Normativity in Hume’s Moral Theory 493
Tom L. Beauchamp

28 Hume’s Metaethics: Is Hume a Moral Noncognitivist? 513
Nicholas L. Sturgeon

Bibliography 529

Index 553

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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781405114554
  • Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: Wiley-Blackwell
  • Depth: 44
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 51 mm
  • Width: 188 mm
  • ISBN-10: 140511455X
  • Publisher Date: 04 Apr 2008
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Height: 257 mm
  • No of Pages: 592
  • Series Title: Blackwell Companions to Philosophy
  • Weight: 1216 gr

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