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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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127. Of CommerceIn Andrew Valls & Angela Coventry (eds.), David Hume on Morals, Politics, and Society, Yale University Press. pp. 176-186. 2018.
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12Appendix 2: Of Self-LoveIn Andrew Valls & Angela Coventry (eds.), David Hume on Morals, Politics, and Society, Yale University Press. pp. 95-100. 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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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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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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101. Of the Liberty of the PressIn Andrew Valls & Angela Coventry (eds.), David Hume on Morals, Politics, and Society, Yale University Press. pp. 133-135. 2018.
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9Persons and Passions in Hume's Philosophy of MindIn Rebecca Copenhaver & Christopher Shields (eds.), Philosophy of Mind in the Early Modern and Modern Ages, Routledge. pp. 318-341. 2019.This paper examines the ongoing relevance of Hume on the mind and self or personal identity.
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A Humean Social OntologyIn Angela Michelle Coventry & Alex Sager (eds.), The Humean Mind, Routledge. 2019.
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Against the Cosmological Argument: The Legacy of Hume’s Dialogues, Part 9In Paul Russell (ed.), Hume’s ‘Dialogues concerning Natural Religion’: A Critical Guide, Cambridge University Press. forthcoming.Much of Hume’s "Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion" is spent debating the experimental design argument for the existence of God. A change of scene occurs in the ninth part of the "Dialogues" when the character of Demea presents an a priori cosmological argument that purports to demonstrate God’s necessary existence. The argument is then criticized by the characters of Cleanthes and Philo. The conversation in the ninth part of the dialogue has occasioned a mixed legacy. For some scholars, the …Read more
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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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A Humean Social OntologyIn Angela Coventry & Alex Sager (eds.), _The Humean Mind_, Routledge. 2019.
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Imagining the Unseen: The External World of Hume’s TreatiseIn Elizabeth S. Radcliffe (ed.), Hume's A Treatise of Human Nature: A Critical Guide, Cambridge University Press. forthcoming.This paper provides a brief history of some critical responses and expansions of Hume on external objects, with a particular emphasis on the relevance of developmental psychology.
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Traces of Hume in SociologyIn Tamás Demeter (ed.), The Sociological Heritage of the Scottish Enlightenment, Edinburgh University Press. 2024.The aim of this paper is to bring the historical origins of sociology and Hume’s philosophy of society a bit closer together by examining some of the ways that Hume’s thought has influenced the directions of sociological thinking. I survey Humean traces in key figures in the field of sociology across the nineteenth to twenty-first centuries in Europe and the United States of America on the topics of positivism, economics, convention, custom and habit, religion, morality, and the self.
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Spatial and Temporal Dimensions of Hume on Probability and the PassionsRevista Estudos Hum(E)Anos 9 (1): 7-28. 2021.This paper is about Hume on the impact of space and time on probability judgements and the passions. Hume's approach to probability judgements in space-time may be considered a precursor to recent work on the cognitive psychology of decision-making. When it comes to the passions, Hume’s observations on the effect of distance in time in particular can be compared to discussions of temporal discounting, central in disciplines such as behavioral economics, neuroscience, psychology, environmental po…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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