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Editors' Introduction Hume Studies Pub Date : 2023-10-30 Elizabeth S. Radcliffe, Mark G. Spencer
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Editors’ Introduction Elizabeth S. Radcliffe and Mark G. Spencer This issue opens with the winning essay in the Second Annual Hume Studies Essay Prize competition: “Hume’s Passion-Based Account of Moral Responsibility,” by Taro Okamura. Dr. Okamura’s essay was chosen as the 2022 winner from among papers submitted by emerging scholars from
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Hume's Passion-Based Account of Moral Responsibility Hume Studies Pub Date : 2023-10-30 Taro Okamura
Abstract: Many scholars have claimed that the psychology of the indirect passions in the Treatise is meant to capture how we come to regard persons as morally responsible agents. My question is exactly how the indirect passions relate to responsibility. In elucidating Hume’s account of responsibility, scholars have often focused not on the passionate responses themselves, but on their structural features
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Internal Inconsistency and Secondary Ideas: Hume's Problem in the Appendix with His Account of Personal Identity Hume Studies Pub Date : 2023-10-30 Julia Wolf
Abstract: In the Appendix to the Treatise, Hume argues that there is a significant problem with his earlier account of personal identity. There has been considerable debate about what this problem actually is. I develop a new version of an internal inconsistency reading, where I argue that Hume realised that his original account of the connexion between perceptions in terms of an association of the
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Enriching Humean Sympathy: Reading Hume's Moral Philosophy in Light of African American Philosophical Thought Hume Studies Pub Date : 2023-10-30 Rico Vitz
Abstract: In this paper, I show how reading Hume’s moral philosophy in light of seminal works by nineteenth- and twentieth-century African American authors can provide resources for developing a richer and more intentionally relational conception of sympathy. I begin by identifying two phenomena to which African American intellectuals like Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Anna Julia Cooper
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Hume, Substance, and Causation: A Solution to a Nasty Problem Hume Studies Pub Date : 2023-10-30 Alexander P. Bozzo
Abstract: Louis Loeb has identified a “nasty problem” in connection with Hume’s theory of meaning. The problem is that Hume seemingly claims we lack ideas corresponding to key metaphysical terms, such as terms like “substance” and “necessary connection,” but he then proceeds to explain why philosophers believe in the existence of entities denoted by such terms. In short, Hume seems motivated to explain
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Hume's Essays, Completing the Treatise Hume Studies Pub Date : 2023-10-30 Frederic L. Van Holthoon
Abstract: In this piece, I argue that Hume wrote his Essays to continue writing on political issues after he rather abruptly ended his Treatise, Book 3. Initially he wrote some essays in the vein of Addison and Steele, but he rejected these essays as “frivolous.” In writing on political issues, he became a master essayist and his essays withstood the test of time. “Political” should here be taken in
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The Clarendon Edition of Hume's Essays Hume Studies Pub Date : 2023-10-30 Lorne Falkenstein
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: The Clarendon Edition of Hume’s Essays Lorne Falkenstein (bio) David Hume. Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary: A Critical Edition. Edited by Tom L. Beauchamp and Mark A. Box, with Michael Silverthorne, J. A. W. Gunn, and F. David Harvey. 2 volumes. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2021. Pp. 1200. ISBN: 97880198847090. $175. As reflected in
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Meanings of "Embodied Experience": A Response to Anik Waldow's Book Hume Studies Pub Date : 2023-10-30 Hynek Janoušek
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Meanings of “Embodied Experience”: A Response to Anik Waldow’s Book Hynek Janoušek (bio) Anik Waldow, Experience Embodied: Early Modern Accounts of the Human Place in Nature Anik Waldow’s book, Experience Embodied: Early Modern Accounts of Human Place in Nature, is a welcome contribution to an interesting topic worthy of wider discussion
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Experience, Embodiment, and History: Remarks on Waldow's Experience Embodied Hume Studies Pub Date : 2023-10-30 Dario Perinetti
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Experience, Embodiment, and History: Remarks on Waldow’s Experience Embodied Dario Perinetti (bio) Anik Waldow’s Experience Embodied delves into what she calls the “early modern debate on the concept of experience.”1 In her rich and wide-ranging account, she shows how a group of key early modern philosophers dealt with a puzzle regarding
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Reply to My Critics: Experience Embodied: Early Modern Accounts of the Human Place in Nature Hume Studies Pub Date : 2023-10-30 Anik Waldow
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reply to My CriticsExperience Embodied: Early Modern Accounts of the Human Place in Nature Anik Waldow (bio) I would like to thank Dario Perinetti and Hynek Janoušek for their thoughtful comments and the time and effort they invested into my work. Their reflections drive attention to important questions and make helpful suggestions about
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Reading David Hume's "Of the Standard of Taste." ed. by Babette Babich (review) Hume Studies Pub Date : 2023-10-30 Tina Baceski
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Reading David Hume’s “Of the Standard of Taste.” ed. by Babette Babich Tina Baceski Babette Babich, ed. Reading David Hume’s “Of the Standard of Taste.” Berlin: deGruyter, 2020. Pp. VII + 333. ISBN: 978-3-11-058564-3, paper, $24.99. Reading David Hume’s “Of the Standard of Taste,” a volume of essays edited by Babette Babich
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Academic Skepticism in Hume and Kant: A Ciceronian Critique of Metaphysics by Catalina González Quintero (review) Hume Studies Pub Date : 2023-10-30 Zuzana Parusniková
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Academic Skepticism in Hume and Kant: A Ciceronian Critique of Metaphysics by Catalina González Quintero Zuzana Parusniková Catalina González Quintero. Academic Skepticism in Hume and Kant: A Ciceronian Critique of Metaphysics. Cham: Springer, 2022. Pp. 268. Hardcover. ISBN: 978-3-030-89749-9. £99.99. This book is a valuable
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Index to Volume 48 Hume Studies Pub Date : 2023-10-30
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Index to Volume 48 ARTICLES Bozzo, Alexander. “Hume, Substance, and Causation: A Solution to a Nasty Problem.” 48.2: 263–82. Dicker, Georges. “Hume and Induction: Merely Cognitive Psychology?” 48.1: 79–116. Hosseini, Sardar. “Hume’s Functionalism.” 48:1: 31–59. Inoue, Haruko. “Hume’s Hypothesis of the Double Relation of Impressions and
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Hume Studies Referees: 1 July 2022 through 30 June 2023 Hume Studies Pub Date : 2023-10-30
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Hume Studies Referees1 July 2022 through 30 June 2023 Tina Baceski Rockhurst University Don Baxter University of Connecticut Helen Beebee University of Leeds Lorraine Besser Middlebury College Tim Black California State University, Northridge Åsa Carlson Stockholm University Juan Santos Castro Pontificia Universidad Javeriana James Chamberlain
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Second Hume Studies Essay Prize Winner Hume Studies Pub Date : 2023-04-18
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Second Hume Studies Essay Prize Winner The officers of the Hume Society and the editors of Hume Studies are pleased to announce the winner of the second annual Hume Studies Essay Prize. The recipient of the prize for 2022 is Taro Okamura, for his paper, “Hume’s Passion-Based Account of Moral Responsibility.” Dr. Okamura received his Ph
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Editors' Introduction Hume Studies Pub Date : 2023-04-18 Elizabeth S. Radcliffe, Mark G. Spencer
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Editors’ Introduction Elizabeth S. Radcliffe and Mark G. Spencer We are pleased to say that Hume Studies has awarded its second annual Essay Prize, with an announcement featured in this issue. The winning paper will be published in November 2023 (Hume Studies 48:2). We thank the members of the 2022–23 Prize Committee, who are acknowledged
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Not Circular: Hume's "Of the Standard of Taste" Hume Studies Pub Date : 2023-04-18 Mark Windsor
Abstract: One of the gravest charges that has been brought against Hume’s essay “Of the Standard of Taste” is that of circularity. Hume is accused of defining good art in terms of “true judges,” and of defining true judges in terms of their ability to judge good art. First, I argue that Hume avoids circularity since he offers a way of identifying good art that is logically independent of the verdict
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Hume's Functionalism Hume Studies Pub Date : 2023-04-18 Sardar Hosseini
Abstract: This paper claims that Hume is committed to a rather sophisticated form of functionalism. This claim is based upon the following arguments: first, Hume’s characterization of objects such as vegetables and animal bodies in terms of their functional identity, and their underlying analogy with the identity we ascribe to persons or selves, implies that an absolute constancy is not part of the
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Hume's Hypothesis of the Double Relation of Impressions and Ideas in the Treatise Hume Studies Pub Date : 2023-04-18 Haruko Inoue
Abstract: What is Hume’s hypothesis of the double relation of impressions and ideas from which a passion arises? How does it operate in structuring his system? These are primary questions that need to be answered in order to understand Hume’s intention in the Treatise. Yet, there exists no reasonable answers, nor serious attempts to answer them, probably because this hypothesis is considered as a limited
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Hume and Induction: Merely Cognitive Psychology? Hume Studies Pub Date : 2023-04-18 Georges Dicker
Abstract: The purpose of Hume’s argument about induction, contra “literalist” interpretations that see it merely as psychology, is to show that induction cannot be justified. Hume maintains that the only way to justify induction would be to demonstrate or to produce a good inductive argument for the uniformity principle (UP). His most famous point is that any attempt to justify UP inductively would
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Is Hume a Methodological Empiricist? Hume Studies Pub Date : 2023-04-18 Ruth Weintraub
Abstract: The question broached in the title may sound odd. It makes sense to ask whether Hume’s empiricism is successful, and whether it is the best way of rendering rigorous the (vague) empiricist view. But is it not obvious that Hume is an empiricist? I shall argue that the answer is negative, at least when we are concerned with methodological empiricism, pertaining to the way inquiry, both scientific
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Spirit and Politics: Some Thoughts on Margaret Watkins's The Philosophical Progress of Hume's "Essays" Hume Studies Pub Date : 2023-04-18 Andre C. Willis
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Spirit and Politics: Some Thoughts on Margaret Watkins’s The Philosophical Progress of Hume’s “Essays” Andre C. Willis (bio) Margaret Watkins’s elegant text, The Philosophical Progress of Hume’s Essays (2019),1 is marked by a Humean approach: it fosters philosophical consideration of both the faculties of the mind and the affective features
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Comments on Margaret Watkins, The Philosophical Progress of Hume's "Essays" Hume Studies Pub Date : 2023-04-18 Jacqueline Taylor
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Comments on Margaret Watkins, The Philosophical Progress of Hume’s “Essays” Jacqueline Taylor (bio) After David Hume’s death, Adam Smith wrote a letter to Hume’s publisher, William Strahan, to recount some of the final words and the attitude of “our late excellent friend, Mr. Hume.”1 Despite declining health and increasing weakness, Hume
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Reply to My Critics Hume Studies Pub Date : 2023-04-18 Margaret Watkins
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reply to My Critics Margaret Watkins (bio) Science is related to wisdom as virtuousness is related to holiness; it is cold and dry, it has not love and knows nothing of a deep feeling of inadequacy and longing. It is as useful to itself as it is harmful to its servants, insofar as it transfers its own character to them and thereby ossifies
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The Imagination in Hume's Philosophy: The Canvas of the Mind by Timothy M. Costelloe (review) Hume Studies Pub Date : 2023-04-18 Saul Traiger
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: The Imagination in Hume’s Philosophy: The Canvas of the Mind by Timothy M. Costelloe Saul Traiger Timothy M. Costelloe. The Imagination in Hume’s Philosophy: The Canvas of the Mind. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2018. Pp. xv + 312. Hardback. ISBN: 9781474436397. $107.00. If anything about Hume’s philosophy can be
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Hume's Epistemological Evolution by Hsueh M. Qu (review) Hume Studies Pub Date : 2023-04-18 Dan Kervick
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Hume’s Epistemological Evolution by Hsueh M. Qu Dan Kervick Hsueh M. Qu, Hume’s Epistemological Evolution. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. Pp. 280. Hardback. ISBN: 9780190066291, $90. Every interpreter of Hume is compelled to grapple at some point with the problem of the relationship between Hume’s Treatise of Human
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Editors' Introduction Hume Studies Pub Date : 2022-10-28 Elizabeth S. Radcliffe, Mark G. Spencer
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Editors’ Introduction Elizabeth S. Radcliffe and Mark G. Spencer This issue of Hume Studies opens with the winner of the inaugural Hume Studies Essay Prize, Aaron Alexander Zubia’s excellent essay, “Hume’s Transformation of Academic Skepticism.” The Prize was awarded this past year in a competition among contending papers submitted from
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Hume's Transformation of Academic Skepticism Hume Studies Pub Date : 2022-10-28 Aaron Alexander Zubia
Abstract: Hume described himself as an Academic skeptic and aligned himself with the skepticism of Socrates and Cicero. I argue, though, that Hume transformed the meaning of Academic skepticism by associating it with an experimental rather than dialectical method. In this essay, I distinguish between those aspects of Cicero’s Academic skepticism that Hume adopted and those he discarded in his presentation
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Structure and Feeling: A Unifying Reading of Hume's Two Accounts of Pride Hume Studies Pub Date : 2022-10-28 Åsa Carlson
Abstract: Hume’s theory of pride has been dismissed due to the contingent relation between passion and object. But why did Hume state the theory as he did? Why did he give two accounts of pride, one holistic and one atomistic? This paper considers Hume’s reasons for giving two accounts, and how he unified them. The holistic account enables Hume to explain how moral distinctions are made, whereas the
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Hume's Third Thoughts on Personal Identity Hume Studies Pub Date : 2022-10-28 Tito Magri
Abstract: I suggest that Hume’s recantation, in the Appendix to the Treatise, of his account of the idea of personal identity in section 1.4.6 hinges on the contrast between the first-personal cognitive roles of that idea and its imagination-based explanation. In stark, if implicit, contrast with Locke, Hume’s account divorces personal identity from consciousness, considering oneself as oneself. But
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A Peculiar Mix: On the Place of Curiosity within Hume's Treatise Hume Studies Pub Date : 2022-10-28 Gabriel Watts
Abstract: In this paper I argue that Hume’s decision to include an account of curiosity within his theory of the passions is what gives Book 2 of the Treatise its distinctive shape, in which an account of what Hume calls “indirect” passions precedes an account of the nature of the will, which is itself followed by an account of the “direct” passions, then curiosity. On my reading, Hume concludes his
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Hume and the Royal African Hume Studies Pub Date : 2022-10-28 Max Grober
Abstract: A previously overlooked letter written by David Hume to the Comtesse de Boufflers in 1766, read alongside an unpublished letter to Hume from the British official John Roberts, sheds important new light on Hume’s views on race. The letters concern a famous episode in eighteenth-century history, the enslavement and redemption of the “African Prince,” William Ansah Sessarakoo, and his subsequent
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The Great Guide: What David Hume can teach us about Being Human and Living Well by Julian Baggini (review) Hume Studies Pub Date : 2022-10-28 Lorraine L. Besser
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: The Great Guide: What David Hume can teach us about Being Human and Living Well by Julian Baggini Lorraine L. Besser Julian Baggini. The Great Guide: What David Hume can teach us about Being Human and Living Well. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2021. Pp. 328. Electronic ISBN 9780691211206, $47.00. In this book, Baggini
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Hume. A Very Short Introduction by James A. Harris (review) Hume Studies Pub Date : 2022-10-28 Moritz Baumstark
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Hume. A Very Short Introduction by James A. Harris Moritz Baumstark James A. Harris. Hume. A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp. 123. Paperback. ISBN: 978-0-19-884978-0, $11.95. This is not the first Very Short Introduction to Hume. An earlier introduction to Hume by the eminent twentieth-century
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Sextus, Montaigne, Hume: Pyrrhonizers by Brian Ribeiro (review) Hume Studies Pub Date : 2022-10-28 Peter S. Fosl
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Sextus, Montaigne, Hume: Pyrrhonizers by Brian Ribeiro Peter S. Fosl Brian Ribeiro. Sextus, Montaigne, Hume: Pyrrhonizers. Leiden: Brill, 2021. Pp. 165. Hardback. ISBN: 978-90-04-46554-1, $145. Brian Ribeiro’s slim volume presents a comparative study of three of the most important figures in the history of skepticism: Sextus
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Index to Volume 47 Hume Studies Pub Date : 2022-10-28
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Index to Volume 47 Articles Bender, Sebastian. “Hume’s Deep Anti-Contractarianism.” 47.1: 103–129. Carlson, Åsa. “Structure and Feeling: A Unifying Reading of Hume’s Two Accounts of Pride.” 47.2: 203–229. Chamberlain, James. “Hume on Calm Passions, Moral Sentiments, and the ‘Common Point of View’.” 47.1: 79–101. Clay, Graham. “Hume’s Incredible
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Hume Studies Referees (Jan. 2021–June 2022) Hume Studies Pub Date : 2022-10-28
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Hume Studies Referees (Jan. 2021–June 2022) Donald Ainslie University of Toronto Matthew Altman Central Washington University Brom Anderson Sarah Lawrence College Helen Beebee University of Manchester Nir Ben-Moshe University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign John Berdell DePaul University Lorraine Besser Middlebury College Tim Black California
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Editors' Introduction Hume Studies Pub Date : 2022-10-28 Elizabeth S. Radcliffe, Mark G. Spencer
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Editors’ Introduction Elizabeth S. Radcliffe and Mark G. Spencer This issue of Hume Studies opens with the winner of the inaugural Hume Studies Essay Prize, Aaron Alexander Zubia’s excellent essay, “Hume’s Transformation of Academic Skepticism.” The Prize was awarded this past year in a competition among contending papers submitted from
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Hume's Transformation of Academic Skepticism Hume Studies Pub Date : 2022-10-28 Aaron Alexander Zubia
Abstract: Hume described himself as an Academic skeptic and aligned himself with the skepticism of Socrates and Cicero. I argue, though, that Hume transformed the meaning of Academic skepticism by associating it with an experimental rather than dialectical method. In this essay, I distinguish between those aspects of Cicero’s Academic skepticism that Hume adopted and those he discarded in his presentation
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Structure and Feeling: A Unifying Reading of Hume's Two Accounts of Pride Hume Studies Pub Date : 2022-10-28 Åsa Carlson
Abstract: Hume’s theory of pride has been dismissed due to the contingent relation between passion and object. But why did Hume state the theory as he did? Why did he give two accounts of pride, one holistic and one atomistic? This paper considers Hume’s reasons for giving two accounts, and how he unified them. The holistic account enables Hume to explain how moral distinctions are made, whereas the
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Hume's Third Thoughts on Personal Identity Hume Studies Pub Date : 2022-10-28 Tito Magri
Abstract: I suggest that Hume’s recantation, in the Appendix to the Treatise, of his account of the idea of personal identity in section 1.4.6 hinges on the contrast between the first-personal cognitive roles of that idea and its imagination-based explanation. In stark, if implicit, contrast with Locke, Hume’s account divorces personal identity from consciousness, considering oneself as oneself. But
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A Peculiar Mix: On the Place of Curiosity within Hume's Treatise Hume Studies Pub Date : 2022-10-28 Gabriel Watts
Abstract: In this paper I argue that Hume’s decision to include an account of curiosity within his theory of the passions is what gives Book 2 of the Treatise its distinctive shape, in which an account of what Hume calls “indirect” passions precedes an account of the nature of the will, which is itself followed by an account of the “direct” passions, then curiosity. On my reading, Hume concludes his
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Hume and the Royal African Hume Studies Pub Date : 2022-10-28 Max Grober
Abstract: A previously overlooked letter written by David Hume to the Comtesse de Boufflers in 1766, read alongside an unpublished letter to Hume from the British official John Roberts, sheds important new light on Hume’s views on race. The letters concern a famous episode in eighteenth-century history, the enslavement and redemption of the “African Prince,” William Ansah Sessarakoo, and his subsequent
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The Great Guide: What David Hume can teach us about Being Human and Living Well by Julian Baggini (review) Hume Studies Pub Date : 2022-10-28 Lorraine L. Besser
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: The Great Guide: What David Hume can teach us about Being Human and Living Well by Julian Baggini Lorraine L. Besser Julian Baggini. The Great Guide: What David Hume can teach us about Being Human and Living Well. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2021. Pp. 328. Electronic ISBN 9780691211206, $47.00. In this book, Baggini
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Hume. A Very Short Introduction by James A. Harris (review) Hume Studies Pub Date : 2022-10-28 Moritz Baumstark
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Hume. A Very Short Introduction by James A. Harris Moritz Baumstark James A. Harris. Hume. A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp. 123. Paperback. ISBN: 978-0-19-884978-0, $11.95. This is not the first Very Short Introduction to Hume. An earlier introduction to Hume by the eminent twentieth-century
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Sextus, Montaigne, Hume: Pyrrhonizers by Brian Ribeiro (review) Hume Studies Pub Date : 2022-10-28 Peter S. Fosl
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Sextus, Montaigne, Hume: Pyrrhonizers by Brian Ribeiro Peter S. Fosl Brian Ribeiro. Sextus, Montaigne, Hume: Pyrrhonizers. Leiden: Brill, 2021. Pp. 165. Hardback. ISBN: 978-90-04-46554-1, $145. Brian Ribeiro’s slim volume presents a comparative study of three of the most important figures in the history of skepticism: Sextus
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Index to Volume 47 Hume Studies Pub Date : 2022-10-28
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Index to Volume 47 Articles Bender, Sebastian. “Hume’s Deep Anti-Contractarianism.” 47.1: 103–129. Carlson, Åsa. “Structure and Feeling: A Unifying Reading of Hume’s Two Accounts of Pride.” 47.2: 203–229. Chamberlain, James. “Hume on Calm Passions, Moral Sentiments, and the ‘Common Point of View’.” 47.1: 79–101. Clay, Graham. “Hume’s Incredible
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Hume Studies Referees (Jan. 2021–June 2022) Hume Studies Pub Date : 2022-10-28
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Hume Studies Referees (Jan. 2021–June 2022) Donald Ainslie University of Toronto Matthew Altman Central Washington University Brom Anderson Sarah Lawrence College Helen Beebee University of Manchester Nir Ben-Moshe University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign John Berdell DePaul University Lorraine Besser Middlebury College Tim Black California
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First Hume Studies Essay Prize Winner Hume Studies Pub Date : 2022-06-08
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: First Hume Studies Essay Prize Winner The officers of the Hume Society and the editors of Hume Studies are pleased to announce the winner of the first Hume Studies Essay Prize. The recipient of the first prize is Aaron A. Zubia, for his paper, "Hume's Transformation of Academic Skepticism." Dr. Zubia received his Ph.D. in Political Science
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In Memoriam: Michael Alexander Stewart (1937–2021) Hume Studies Pub Date : 2022-06-08 John P. Wright
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: In Memoriam:Michael Alexander Stewart (1937–2021) John P. Wright Sandy, as he was known to so many Hume scholars, died peacefully in Salisbury, England on July 30, 2021. For many years, Sandy welcomed Hume scholars to Edinburgh where he was often found working in the Rare Books and Manuscripts Departments of the National Library of Scotland
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Editors' Introduction Hume Studies Pub Date : 2022-06-08 Elizabeth S. Radcliffe, Mark G. Spencer
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Editors' Introduction Elizabeth S. Radcliffe and Mark G. Spencer This is our initial issue as co-editors of Hume Studies. We thank our predecessors, Ann Levey, Karl Schafer, and Amy M. Schmitter, for their years of editorial oversight and for their assistance in the transition. Some of the papers they began shepherding through the editorial
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Skepticism in Hume's Dialogues Hume Studies Pub Date : 2022-06-08 Hsueh Qu
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Skepticism in Hume's Dialogues Hsueh Qu (bio) Abstract In this paper, I examine the epistemological positions of Philo and Cleanthes in the Dialogues. I find that Philo's attitude towards skepticism mirrors that of the first Enquiry, most notably in its endorsement of mitigated skepticism, and its treatment of religious reasoning as distinctly
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Hume's Fragment on Evil Hume Studies Pub Date : 2022-06-08 Daryl Ooi
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Hume's Fragment on Evil1 Daryl Ooi (bio) Abstract Since its relatively recent publication (1995), Hume's Fragment on Evil has received little sustained analysis. References to the Fragment tend to be scarce, and at best, only parts of the Fragment are cited at any time. This essay presents an interpretation of the Fragment that considers
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Hume's Incredible Demonstrations Hume Studies Pub Date : 2022-06-08 Graham Clay
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Hume's Incredible Demonstrations Graham Clay (bio) Abstract Commentators have rightly focused on the reasons why Hume maintains that the conclusions of skeptical arguments cannot be believed, as well as on the role these arguments play in Hume's justification of his account of the mind. Nevertheless, Hume's interpreters should take more
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Hume's Deep Anti-Contractarianism Hume Studies Pub Date : 2022-06-08 Sebastian Bender
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Hume's Deep Anti-Contractarianism1 Sebastian Bender (bio) Abstract Hume is an avowed critic of contractarianism. He opposes the idea that a legitimate government is based on an "original contract" or on the consent of those who are governed. Most scholars assume, though, that his criticisms apply only to a limited range of contractarian
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Secret Sentiments: Hume on Pride, Decency, and Virtue Hume Studies Pub Date : 2022-06-08 Enrico Galvagni
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Secret Sentiments:Hume on Pride, Decency, and Virtue Enrico Galvagni (bio) Abstract In this paper, I reconstruct Hume's account of decency, the virtue associated with a limited display of pride, and show how it presents a significant challenge to standard virtue ethical interpretations of Hume. In section I, I explore his ambivalent conception
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The Persistence of Party: Ideas of Harmonious Discord in Eighteenth-Century Britain by Max Skjönsberg (review) Hume Studies Pub Date : 2022-06-08 Marc Hanvelt
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: The Persistence of Party: Ideas of Harmonious Discord in Eighteenth-Century Britain by Max Skjönsberg Marc Hanvelt, Associate Professor Max Skjönsberg. The Persistence of Party: Ideas of Harmonious Discord in Eighteenth-Century Britain. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. 350. Hardback. ISBN 9781108841634 Max
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A Philosopher's Economist: Hume and the Rise of Capitalism by Margaret Schabas and Carl Wennerlind (review) Hume Studies Pub Date : 2022-06-08 Erik W. Matson
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: A Philosopher's Economist: Hume and the Rise of Capitalism by Margaret Schabas and Carl Wennerlind Erik W. Matson, Senior Research Fellow Margaret Schabas and Carl Wennerlind. A Philosopher's Economist: Hume and the Rise of Capitalism. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020. Pp. xv + 316. Hardback. ISBN 978-0-226-59744-7
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Hume and the Laws of Nature Hume Studies Pub Date : 2022-05-07 Michael Jacovides
Abstract: The common view that Hume is a regularity theorist about laws of nature isn't textually well grounded. The texts show that he thinks of them as objective governing principles that could conceivably be violated while still counting as a law of nature. This is a standard view at the time, and Hume borrows it from others. He implies that the best evidence for rational religion is the exceptionless
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The Broader Context of Sympathy in Book 2 of the Treatise Hume Studies Pub Date : 2022-05-07 Hynek Janoušek
Abstract: The following text suggests interpreting Hume's theory of sympathy in Book 2 of the Treatise of Human Nature in a broader context of relations, feelings, and sentiments. It is this context which marks off different types of impressions and their different phenomenology, and offers rich insights into Hume's theory. As regards Hume's theory of sympathy, it can be analyzed for various cases