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14FrontmatterIn Andrew Valls & Angela Coventry (eds.), David Hume on Morals, Politics, and Society, Yale University Press. 2018.
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14Note on the TextsIn Andrew Valls & Angela Coventry (eds.), David Hume on Morals, Politics, and Society, Yale University Press. 2018.
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19Section 4: Of Political SocietyIn Andrew Valls & Angela Coventry (eds.), David Hume on Morals, Politics, and Society, Yale University Press. pp. 30-34. 2018.
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13Section 9: ConclusionIn Andrew Valls & Angela Coventry (eds.), David Hume on Morals, Politics, and Society, Yale University Press. pp. 76-87. 2018.
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11Appendix 3: Some Farther Considerations with Regard to JusticeIn Andrew Valls & Angela Coventry (eds.), David Hume on Morals, Politics, and Society, Yale University Press. pp. 101-107. 2018.
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163. Of the First Principles of GovernmentIn Andrew Valls & Angela Coventry (eds.), David Hume on Morals, Politics, and Society, Yale University Press. pp. 147-150. 2018.
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11Section 5: Why Utility PleasesIn Andrew Valls & Angela Coventry (eds.), David Hume on Morals, Politics, and Society, Yale University Press. pp. 35-49. 2018.
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13A DialogueIn Andrew Valls & Angela Coventry (eds.), David Hume on Morals, Politics, and Society, Yale University Press. pp. 117-131. 2018.
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126. Of National CharactersIn Andrew Valls & Angela Coventry (eds.), David Hume on Morals, Politics, and Society, Yale University Press. pp. 162-175. 2018.
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14An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals: Section 1: Of the General Principles of MoralsIn Andrew Valls & Angela Coventry (eds.), David Hume on Morals, Politics, and Society, Yale University Press. pp. 3-7. 2018.
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17Section 3: Of JusticeIn Andrew Valls & Angela Coventry (eds.), David Hume on Morals, Politics, and Society, Yale University Press. pp. 13-29. 2018.
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13Appendix 4: Of Some Verbal DisputesIn Andrew Valls & Angela Coventry (eds.), David Hume on Morals, Politics, and Society, Yale University Press. pp. 108-116. 2018.
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16ContributorsIn Andrew Valls & Angela Coventry (eds.), David Hume on Morals, Politics, and Society, Yale University Press. 2018.
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20Section 8: Of Qualities Immediately Agreeable to OthersIn Andrew Valls & Angela Coventry (eds.), David Hume on Morals, Politics, and Society, Yale University Press. pp. 71-75. 2018.
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12Section 2: Of BenevolenceIn Andrew Valls & Angela Coventry (eds.), David Hume on Morals, Politics, and Society, Yale University Press. pp. 8-12. 2018.
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158. Of Refinement in the ArtsIn Andrew Valls & Angela Coventry (eds.), David Hume on Morals, Politics, and Society, Yale University Press. pp. 187-195. 2018.
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12Section 6: Of Qualities Useful to OurselvesIn Andrew Valls & Angela Coventry (eds.), David Hume on Morals, Politics, and Society, Yale University Press. pp. 50-62. 2018.
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17ContentsIn Andrew Valls & Angela Coventry (eds.), David Hume on Morals, Politics, and Society, Yale University Press. 2018.
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22Section 7: Of Qualities Immediately Agreeable to OurselvesIn Andrew Valls & Angela Coventry (eds.), David Hume on Morals, Politics, and Society, Yale University Press. pp. 63-70. 2018.
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135. Of Parties in GeneralIn Andrew Valls & Angela Coventry (eds.), David Hume on Morals, Politics, and Society, Yale University Press. pp. 155-161. 2018.
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24Review of Hume's Moral Psychology and Contemporary Psychology, edited by Philip Reed and Rico Vitz (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. 2018.
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26Historical Dictionary of Hume's Philosophy (Second Edition)Rowman and Littlefield. 2018.The Historical Dictionary of Hume's Philosophy is the only Hume dictionary in existence. The book provides a substantial account of David Hume's life and the times in which he lived, and it provides an overview of his philosophical doctrines. This is done through a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and over a hundred cross-referenced dictionary entries covering key terms, as well as brief discussions of Hume's major works and of some of his most important predecessors, contempor…Read more
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Causation, Quasi-Realism, and David HumeDissertation, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 2004.Despite the widely recognized importance of Hume's theory of causation, there is no agreement amongst commentators about the upshot of that theory. Causal realists interpret Hume as believing that causal statements are true or false due to the existence in the universe of a power linking causes to effects, while causal anti-realists read him as denying that the existence of powers makes causal statements true or false, and as holding instead either that causal statements can be reduced to statem…Read more
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1135Remaking responsibility: complexity and scattered causes in human agencyIn Tangjia Wang (ed.), Proceedings of the 1st International Conference of Philosophy: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow, Global Science and Technology Forum. pp. 91-101. 2013.Contrary to intuitions that human beings are free to think and act with “buck-stopping” freedom, philosophers since Holbach and Hume have argued that universal causation makes free will nonsensical. Contemporary neuroscience has strengthened their case and begun to reveal subtle and counterintuitive mechanisms in the processes of conscious agency. Although some fear that determinism undermines moral responsibility, the opposite is true: free will, if it existed, would undermine coherent systems …Read more
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808Hume and Contemporary Political PhilosophyThe European Legacy (5): 588-602. 2013.Our goal in this article is first to give a broad outline of some of Hume’s major positions to do with justice, sympathy, the common point of view, criticisms of social contract theory, convention and private property that continue to resonate in contemporary political philosophy. We follow this with an account of Hume’s influence on contemporary philosophy in the conservative, classical liberal, utilitarian, and Rawlsian traditions. We end with some reflections on how contemporary political phi…Read more
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21The Humean Elements of Rawls' Political PhilosophyIn Angela Coventry & Alexander Sager (eds.), Hume and Contemporary Political Philosophy, Cambridge Scholars Publishing. pp. 241-265. 2013.David Hume is a constant, but underappreciated presence in John Rawls’ work. This paper attempts to uncover and explicate the core Humean elements in Rawls’ philosophy and advocates for the merits of a more Humean Rawls. Though Rawls’ familiarity with Hume is well known and his commentators frequently mention the importance of Hume’s circumstances of justice, the depth and range of the Humean influence has not been sufficiently understood. Commentators have been too quick to accept Rawls’ own ac…Read more
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33Humean Eyes ('one particular shade of blue')Cogent Arts and Humanities 3 (1). 2016.Why do Humean eyes matter? The subject of David Hume’s eyes and face leads us into some unexpected curiosities connected with events in his life and written works. We outline the scholars’ propensity to describe the face of their favourite philosopher and spread upon it their personal reading of his life and writings. We ask questions about portraits, their resemblance to the original as a standard of beauty. We survey eighteenth-century physiognomy, and the humourous paradox of the “fat philoso…Read more
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59Review: P. J. E. Kail, Projection and Realism in Hume's Philosophy (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2008 (7). 2008.
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Remaking responsibility: complexity and scattered causes in human agencyProceedings of the 1st International Conference on Philosophy: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow 1. 2013.Contrary to intuitions that human beings are free to think and act with “buck-stopping” freedom, philosophers since Holbach and Hume have argued that universal causation makes free will nonsensical. Contemporary neuroscience has strengthened their case and begun to reveal subtle and counterintuitive mechanisms in the processes of conscious agency. Although some fear that determinism undermines moral responsibility, the opposite is true: free will, if it existed, would undermine coherent systems …Read more
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