A companion to Hume /

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Other Authors: Radcliffe, Elizabeth Schmidt, 1955-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2008.
Series:Blackwell companions to philosophy ; 40.
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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?