A companion to Hume /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; Malden, MA :
Blackwell Pub.,
2008.
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| Series: | Blackwell companions to philosophy ;
40. |
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| Online Access: | Contributor biographical information Publisher description Table of contents only |
Table of Contents:
- Hume's Context
- 1. Hume in the Enlightenment Tradition
- Part I: Mind and Knowledge
- 2. Hume's theory of ideas
- 3. Hume on memory and imagination
- 4. Hume and the origin of our ideas of space and time
- 5. Hume on the relation of cause and effect
- 6. Inductive inference in Hume's philosophy
- 7. Hume on belief in the external world
- 8. Hume on personal identity
- Part II: Passion and Action
- 9. Hume's indirect passions
- 10. Hume on the direct passions and motivation
- 11. Hume on library and necessity
- Part III: Morality and Beauty
- 12. Hume on moral rationalism, sentimentalism, and sympathy
- 13. Sympathy and Hume's spectator-centered theory of virtue
- 14. Hume's theory of justice, or artificial virtue
- 15. Hume on beauty and virtue
- 16. Enquiry concerning the principles of morals: incomparably the best?
- Part IV: Religion
- 17. Hume's views on religion: intellectual and cultural influences
- 18. Hume on the nature and existence of God
- 19. Hume on miracles and immortality
- Part V. Economics, politics, and history
- 20. Hume's economic theory
- 21. "One of the finest and most subtile inventions": Hume on government
- 22. "The most illustrious philosopher and historian of the age": Hume's history of England
- Part VI: Contemporary Themes
- 23. Hume's naturalism and his skepticism
- 24. Is Hume a realist or an anti-realist?
- 25. Hume's epistemological legacy
- 26. The Humean theory of motivation and its critics
- 27. The sources of normativity in Hume's moral theory
- 28. Hume's metaethics: is Hume a moral noncognitivist?