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213The Humean Theory of Motivation and its CriticsIn A Companion to Hume, Wiley-blackwell. 2008.This chapter contains section titled: The Defense of the Humean Theory of Motivation in Hume Challenges to the Humean Theory of Motivation Hume's Legacy References Further Reading.
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71Moral Sentimentalism and the Reasonableness of Being GoodRevue Internationale de Philosophie 2013 (no. 263): 9-27. 2013.In this paper, I discuss the implications of Hutcheson’s and Hume’s sentimentalist theories for the question of whether and how we can offer reasons to be moral. Hutcheson and Hume agree that reason does not give us ultimate ends. Because of this, on Hutcheson’s line, the possession of affections and of a moral sense makes practical reasons possible. On Hume’s view, that reason does not give us ultimate ends means that reason does not motivate on its own, and this makes practical reasons, strict…Read more
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Areas of Specialization
17th/18th Century Philosophy |
David Hume |
Emotion and Reason |
Moral Psychology |
Motivation |