The Oxford Handbook of Hume

831 Pages·2016·6.68 MB·English

by  Paul Russell

The Oxford Handbook of
H U M E

The Oxford Handbook of
HUME
Edited by
PAUL RUSSELL
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The Oxford handbook of Hume / Edited by Paul Russell.
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ISBN 978–0–19–974284–4 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1. Hume, David, 1711–1776.
I. Russell, Paul, 1955– editor.
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Contents
Acknowledgments  xi
Abbreviations of References to Hume’s Writings  xiii
List of Contributors  xv
Introduction  xix
1. Hume’s Life and Works  1
James A. Harris
PART I CENTRAL THEMES
2. Naturalism and Skepticism in the Philosophy of Hume  21
Barry Stroud
3. Reason, Normativity, and Hume’s “Title Principle”  32
Don Garrett
4. Reflexivity and Sentiment in Hume’s Philosophy  54
Annette Baier
5. Hume’s Skeptical Realism  60
John P. Wright
6. Hume’s Chief Argument  82
Peter Millican
7. Hume’s Philosophy of Irreligion and the Myth
of British Empiricism  109
Paul Russell
PART II METAPHYSICS AND EPISTEMOLOGY
8. Hume’s Theory of Ideas  141
Wayne Waxman
viii Contents
9. Hume and the Molyneux Problem  158
Henry E. Allison
10. Hume on Space and Time  173
Donald L. M. Baxter
11. Hume’s Skeptical Logic of Induction  191
Kenneth P. Winkler
12. Hume and the Problem of Causation  228

Helen Beebee
13. Hume on the External World  249

Georges Dicker
14. Hume on Personal Identity  269

Galen Strawson
PART III PASSION, MORALITY,

AND POLITICS
15. Hume on Pride and the Other Indirect Passions  295
Jacqueline Taylor
16. The Nature and Functions of Sympathy in Hume’s Philosophy  312

Rico Vitz

17. Reason, Belief, and the Passions  333
David Owen

18. Hume on Practical Reason: Against the Normative Authority
of Reason  356
Karl Schafer

19. Hume, Free Will, and Moral Responsibility  380
Tony Pitson

20. Hume on Is and Ought: Logic, Promises, and the Duke
of Wellington  401

Charles Pigden
21. Hume, Morality, and Skepticism  416
Simon Blackburn
Contents ix
22. Hume on the Artificial Virtues  435
Geoffrey Sayre-McCord
23. Hume and Virtue Ethics  470
Christine Swanton
24. Hume’s Political Philosophy  489
Neil McArthur
PART IV AESTHETICS, HISTORY,
AND ECONOMICS
25. Hume, Kant, and the Standard of Taste  507
Paul Guyer
26. Hume’s Taste and the Rationalist Critique  531
Peter Kivy
27. Hume’s History of England  546
Donald T. Siebert
28. Hume’s Philosophical Economics  569
Tatsuya Sakamoto
PART V RELIGION
29. Hume on Miracles: It’s Part 2 That Matters  591
Michael Levine
30. Hume and Proofs for the Existence of God  607
Martin Bell
31. Hume on Evil  623
Samuel Newlands
32. Hume’s Natural History of Religion  646
Keith E. Yandell
33. Hume on Suicide  660
Eugenio Lecaldano