Title: A companion to Hume /
Authors: Radcliffe, Elizabeth Schmidt, 1955-
Publisher: Blackwell Pub.,
Year: 2008
Subjects: Hume, David,
Abstract: 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.
Contents: Hume's context. Hume in the Enlightenment tradition / Stephen Buckle -- Mind and knowledge. Hume's theory of ideas / Don Garrett -- Hume on memory and imagination / Saul Traiger -- Hume and the origin of our ideas of space and time / Wayne Waxman -- Hume on the relation of cause and effect / Francis Watanabe Dauer -- Inductive inference in Hume's philosophy / Louis E. Loeb -- Hume on belief in the external world / Michel Malherbe -- Hume on personal identity / Donald C. Ainslie -- Passions and action. Hume's indirect passions / Rachel Cohon -- Hume on the direct passions and motivation / Tito Magri -- Hume on liberty and necessity / John Bricke -- Morality and beauty. Hume on moral rationalism, sentimentalism, and sympathy / Charlotte R. Brown -- Sympathy and Hume's spectator-centered theory of virtue / Kate Abramson -- Hume's theory of justice, or artificial virtue / Eugenio Lecaldano -- Hume on beauty and virtue / Jacqueline Taylor -- Enquiry concerning the principles of morals : incomparably the best? / Annette C. Baier -- Religion. Hume's views on religion : intellectual and cultural influences / Terence Penelhum -- Hume on the nature and existence of God / Martin Bell -- Hume on miracles and immortality / Michael P. Levine -- Economics, politics, and history. Hume's economic theory / Tatsuya Sakamoto -- "One of the finest and most subtile inventions" : Hume on government / Richard H. Dees -- "The most illustrious philosopher and historian of the age" : Hume's History of England / Mark Salber Phillips -- Contemporary themes. Hume's naturalism and his skepticism / Janet Broughton -- Is Hume a realist or an anti-realist? / P.J.E. Kail -- Hume's epistemological legacy / William Edward Morris -- The Humean theory of motivation and its critics / Elizabeth S. Radcliffe -- The sources of normativity in Hume's moral theory / Tom L. Beauchamp -- Hume's metaethics : is Hume a moral noncognitivist? / Nicholas L. Sturgeon.