A Companion to Hume Book

Notes on Contributors.

Acknowledgments.

Note on Citations.

Introduction.

Hume’s Context:.

1. Hume in the Enlightenment Tradition: Stephen Buckle (Australian Catholic University).

Part I: Mind and Knowledge:.

2. Hume’s Theory of Ideas: Don Garrett (New York University).

3. Hume on Memory and Imagination: Saul Traiger (Occidental College).

4. Hume and the Origin of Our Ideas of Space and Time: Wayne Waxman (New York University, Visiting Professor).

5. Hume on the Relation of Cause and Effect: Francis Watanabe Dauer (Emeritus, University of California, Santa Barbara).

6. Inductive Inference in Hume’s Philosophy: Louis E. Loeb (University of Michigan).

7. Hume on Belief in the External World: Michel Malherbe (University of Nantes).

8. Hume on Personal Identity: Donald C. Ainslie (University of Toronto).

Part II: Passions and Action:.

9. Hume’s Indirect Passions: Rachel Cohon (New York University).

10. Hume on the Direct Passions and Motivation: Tito Magri (University of Rome).

11. Hume on Liberty and Necessity: John Bricke (University of Kansas).

Part III: Morality and Beauty:.

12. Hume on Moral Rationalism, Sentimentalism, and Sympathy: Charlotte R. Brown (Illinois Wesleyan University).

13. Sympathy and Hume’s Spectator-centered Theory of Virtue: Kate Abramson (Indiana University).

14. Hume’s Theory of Justice, or Artificial Virtue: Eugenio Lecaldano (University of Rome).

15. Hume on Beauty and Virtue: Jacqueline Taylor (University of San Francisco).

16. Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals: Incomparably the Best?: Annette C. Baier (Retired, University of Pittsburgh).

Part IV: Religion:.

17. Hume’s Views on Religion: Intellectual and Cultural Influences: Terence Penelhum (University of Calgary).

18. Hume on the Nature and Existence of God: Martin Bell (Manchester Metropolitan University).

19. Hume on Miracles and Immortality: Michael P. Levine (University of Western Australia).

Part V: Economics, Politics, and History:.

20. Hume’s Economic Theory: Tatsuya Sakamoto (Keio University).

21. “One of the Finest and Most Subtile Inventions”: Hume on Government: Richard H. Dees (Rochester University).

22. “The Most Illustrious Philosopher and Historian of the Age”: Hume’s History of England: Mark Salber Phillips (Carleton University).

Part VI: Contemporary Themes:.

23. Hume’s Naturalism and His Skepticism: Janet Broughton (University of California).

24. Is Hume a Realist or an Anti-realist?: P. J. E. Kail (University of Oxford).

25. Hume’s Epistemological Legacy: William Edward Morris (Illinois Wesleyan University).

26. The Humean Theory of Motivation and Its Critics: Elizabeth S. Radcliffe (Santa Clara University).

27. The Sources of Normativity in Hume’s Moral Theory: Tom L. Beauchamp (Georgetown University).

28. Hume’s Metaethics: Is Hume a Moral Noncognitivist?: Nicholas L. Sturgeon (Cornell University).

Bibliography.

Index