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15FrontmatterIn Angela Coventry & Andrew Valls (eds.), _David Hume on Morals, Politics, and Society_, Yale University Press. 2019.
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16Note on the TextsIn Angela Coventry & Andrew Valls (eds.), _David Hume on Morals, Politics, and Society_, Yale University Press. 2019.
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22Section 4: Of Political SocietyIn Angela Coventry & Andrew Valls (eds.), _David Hume on Morals, Politics, and Society_, Yale University Press. pp. 30-34. 2019.
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14Section 9: ConclusionIn Angela Coventry & Andrew Valls (eds.), _David Hume on Morals, Politics, and Society_, Yale University Press. pp. 76-87. 2019.
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13Appendix 3: Some Farther Considerations with Regard to JusticeIn Angela Coventry & Andrew Valls (eds.), _David Hume on Morals, Politics, and Society_, Yale University Press. pp. 101-107. 2019.
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173. Of the First Principles of GovernmentIn Angela Coventry & Andrew Valls (eds.), _David Hume on Morals, Politics, and Society_, Yale University Press. pp. 147-150. 2019.
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12Section 5: Why Utility PleasesIn Angela Coventry & Andrew Valls (eds.), _David Hume on Morals, Politics, and Society_, Yale University Press. pp. 35-49. 2019.
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14A DialogueIn Angela Coventry & Andrew Valls (eds.), _David Hume on Morals, Politics, and Society_, Yale University Press. pp. 117-131. 2019.
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136. Of National CharactersIn Angela Coventry & Andrew Valls (eds.), _David Hume on Morals, Politics, and Society_, Yale University Press. pp. 162-175. 2019.
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17An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals: Section 1: Of the General Principles of MoralsIn Angela Coventry & Andrew Valls (eds.), _David Hume on Morals, Politics, and Society_, Yale University Press. pp. 3-7. 2019.
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20Section 3: Of JusticeIn Angela Coventry & Andrew Valls (eds.), _David Hume on Morals, Politics, and Society_, Yale University Press. pp. 13-29. 2019.
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14Appendix 4: Of Some Verbal DisputesIn Angela Coventry & Andrew Valls (eds.), _David Hume on Morals, Politics, and Society_, Yale University Press. pp. 108-116. 2019.
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17ContributorsIn Angela Coventry & Andrew Valls (eds.), _David Hume on Morals, Politics, and Society_, Yale University Press. 2019.
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21Section 8: Of Qualities Immediately Agreeable to OthersIn Angela Coventry & Andrew Valls (eds.), _David Hume on Morals, Politics, and Society_, Yale University Press. pp. 71-75. 2019.
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13Section 2: Of BenevolenceIn Angela Coventry & Andrew Valls (eds.), _David Hume on Morals, Politics, and Society_, Yale University Press. pp. 8-12. 2019.
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168. Of Refinement in the ArtsIn Angela Coventry & Andrew Valls (eds.), _David Hume on Morals, Politics, and Society_, Yale University Press. pp. 187-195. 2019.
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13Section 6: Of Qualities Useful to OurselvesIn Angela Coventry & Andrew Valls (eds.), _David Hume on Morals, Politics, and Society_, Yale University Press. pp. 50-62. 2019.
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19ContentsIn Angela Coventry & Andrew Valls (eds.), _David Hume on Morals, Politics, and Society_, Yale University Press. 2019.
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23Section 7: Of Qualities Immediately Agreeable to OurselvesIn Angela Coventry & Andrew Valls (eds.), _David Hume on Morals, Politics, and Society_, Yale University Press. pp. 63-70. 2019.
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145. Of Parties in GeneralIn Angela Coventry & Andrew Valls (eds.), _David Hume on Morals, Politics, and Society_, Yale University Press. pp. 155-161. 2019.
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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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27Historical 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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1158Remaking 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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34Humean 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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58Review: 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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137Locke, Hume and the Idea of Causal PowerLocke Studies 33 (2): 93-112. 2003.This paper has a modest, but important, aim: to gain a better understanding of the relationship between John Locke's and David Hume's theories of causal power in the operations of external objects. The task is important because it focuses on an issue involving these two philosophers astonishingly not much discussed amongst commentators. (edited)
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69Critical Review of Recent Introductory Works on Hume (review)Hume Studies 36 (2): 217-225. 2010.Simon Blackburn’s How to Read Hume, Robert Fogelin’s Hume’s Skeptical Crisis: A Textual Study and John P. Wright’s Hume’s ‘A Treatise of Human Nature’: An Introduction are all clear and highly readable works directed at audiences of students and other non-specialists. Given that all three of the authors are prominent and distinguished Hume scholars, I suspect these works will be of great interest to Hume specialists as well. This piece first summarizes the aims and methods of each book and next,…Read more
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261Hume on Animals and the Rest of NatureIn Elisa Aaltola & John Hadley (eds.), Animal Ethics and Philosophy: Questioning the Orthodoxy, Rowman & Littlefield International. 2014.This paper develops a Humean environmental meta-ethic to apply to the animal world and, given some further considerations, to the rest of nature. Our interpretation extends Hume’s account of sympathy, our natural ability to sympathize with the emotions of others, so that we may sympathize not only with human beings but also animals, plants and ecosystems as well. Further, we suggest that Hume has the resources for an account of environmental value that applies to non-human animals, non-sentient …Read more
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