Persons and passions
Subtitle: essays in honor of Annette Baier
By: edited by Joyce Jenkins, Jennifer Whiting, and Christopher Williams.
Contributors: Baier, Annette.; Jenkins, Joyce, 1958-; Whiting, Jennifer.; Williams, Christopher, 1960-
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Notre Dame, Ind
Language: eng
Number of pages: 368
Subjects: Hume, David, 1711-1776.; Descartes, René, 1596-1650; Baier, Annette.; Philosophy -- United states.; Ethics.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Persons and passions : an introduction / Christopher Williams; title: What are the passions doing in the meditations? / Lisa Shapiro; title: Love in the ruins : passion in Descartes' meditations / William Beardsley; title: The passionate intellect : reading the (non-)opposition of reason and emotion in Descartes / Amy Schmitter; title: Material falsity and the arguments for God's existence in Descartes' meditations / Cecilia Wee; title: Reason unhinged : passion and precipice from Montaigne to Hume / Saul Traiger; title: Reflection and ideas in Hume's account of the passions / Lilli Alanen; title: Sympathy and the unity of Hume's idea of self / Donald Ainslie; title: Hume's voyage / Janet Broughton; title: Artifice, desire, and their relationship : Hume against Aristotle / Alasdair MacIntyre; title: Hume and morality's "useful purpose" / David Gauthier; title: Reflection and well-being / Robert Shaver; title: Friendship and the law of reason : Baier and Kant on love and principles / Sergio Tenenbaum; title: Cruelty, respect, and unsentimental love / Michele Moody-Adams; title: Trust as an affective attitude / Karen Jones; title: Trusting "first" and "second" selves : Aristotelian reflections on Virginia / Woolf and Annette Baier, Jennifer Whiting.