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58Hume, Skepticism, and Early American DeismHume Studies 25 (1-2): 171-192. 1999.This article first builds upon precedent work--including that of John M. Werner, Kerry S. Walters, and James Dye-to articulate a more complete understanding of David Hume's influence upon North American colonial and early U.S. thought. Secondly, through a comparison with arguments concerning miracles developed by early American deists Elihu Palmer, Ethan Allen, and Thomas Paine, the article clarifies and evaluates Hume's arguments against the rationality of belief in miracles. It judges Hume's a…Read more
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81A Treatise of Human Nature (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 46 (2): 325-326. 2008.David Fate Norton and Mary J. Norton’s new edition of David Hume’s A Treatise of Human Nature , volumes 1 and 2 of The Clarendon Edition of the Works of David Hume, establishes a new standard for scholars engaged with that work, in two ways. In the first place, it presents the cleanest critical text to date of the Treatise itself, together with the most robust scholarly apparatus available. Secondly, and in some ways more extraordinarily, the new Clarendon edition realizes for the first time an …Read more
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5Deborah Cook, The Culture Industry Revisited: Theodor W. Adorno on Mass Culture (review)Philosophy in Review 17 (1): 13-15. 1997.
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12Philosophy: The Classic Readings (edited book)Wiley-Blackwell. 2009._Philosophy: The Classic Readings_ provides a comprehensive, single-volume collection of the greatest works of philosophy from ancient to modern times. Draws on both Eastern and Western philosophical traditions Arranged chronologically within parts on Ethics, Epistemology, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Religion, and Political Philosophy Features original readings from more than a hundred of the world's great philosophers - from Lao Tzu, Confucius, the Buddha, Plato, Śamkara, Aquinas, al-Ghazāli, Ka…Read more
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42Show me the moneyThe Philosophers' Magazine 44 81-82. 2009.Many philosophers are little devoted to the love of wisdom. In only a merely “academic” way do they aspire to intellectual virtue. Even less often do they exhibit qualities of moral excellence. On the contrary, many philosophers, or what pass as philosophers, are, sadly, better described as petty social climbers, meretricious snobs, and acquisitive consumerists
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33The most useful column ever — and that claim’s indefeasibleThe Philosophers' Magazine 34 82-82. 2006.
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1John E. Seery, Political Theory for Mortals: Shades of Justice, Images of Death Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 17 (5): 373-375. 1997.
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84Note to realistsThe Philosophers' Magazine 8 (8): 40-42. 1999.Many philosophers are little devoted to the love of wisdom. In only a merely “academic” way do they aspire to intellectual virtue. Even less often do they exhibit qualities of moral excellence. On the contrary, many philosophers, or what pass as philosophers, are, sadly, better described as petty social climbers, meretricious snobs, and acquisitive consumerists
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583Critical Study of Livingston's Philosophical Melancholy and Delirium (review)Hume Studies 24 (2): 355-366. 1998.
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18Hume’s Sceptical Enlightenment by Ryu SusatoJournal of the History of Philosophy 55 (1): 165-166. 2017.This rich and detailed volume reads David Hume as a skeptic, but Susato is less interested in dissecting Hume’s particular skeptical arguments and more concerned with what he regards as Hume’s larger skeptical vision as it relates to his social and political thought. Susato argues against the idea that Hume’s historical work is independent of his philosophical skepticism; and he opposes the idea that Hume ought best to be read as a conservative thinker. Broadly speaking, the question Susato addr…Read more
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42The Conceptual Carvery: Making sense of sense and referenceThe Philosophers' Magazine 29 85-85. 2005.
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7British philosophers, 1500-1799 (edited book)Gale Group. 2002.Essays on British philosophers engaged with philosophical topics and used methods that were both different from and continuous with those that were taken up by British philosophers of the next two centuries. Major focus on the influence of Francis Bacon, who launched the era's most influential British attack on the traditional theories and practices of philosophy itself offering an alternative vision of a profoundly different and more powerful form of philosophy.
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