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17In Memoriam: Michael Alexander StewartHume Studies 47 (1): 5-6. 2022.Sandy, as he was known to so many Hume scholars, died peacefully in Salisbury, England on July 30, 2021. For many years, Sandy welcomed Hume scholars to Edinburgh where he was often found working in the Rare Books and Manuscripts Departments of the National Library of Scotland and the University of Edinburgh. He shared his vast knowledge of all things Humean in conversation with visitors from all parts of the world, as well as in his many publications. He was especially generous with his time an…Read more
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15Hume's Enlightenment Tract: The Unity and Purpose of 'An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding'Australasian Journal of Philosophy 81 (3): 434-436. 2003.Book Information Hume's Enlightenment Tract: The Unity and Purpose of 'An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding'. By Stephen Buckle. Clarendon Press. Oxford. 2001. Pp. xi + 351. Hardback, £40.
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12Epiphenomenalism and the Evolutionary Role of Pleasure and PainJournal of Consciousness Studies 31 (3): 196-219. 2024.One possible challenge for epiphenomenalism arises from the theory of evolution: if the mental has no causal powers, how might it have evolved? The aim of this paper is to argue that, contrary to some arguments advanced by other philosophers, most particularly William Robinson and Joseph Corabi, considerations from the theory of evolution do pose a genuine difficulty for epiphenomenalism.
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12The Treatise: Composition, Reception, and ResponseIn Saul Traiger (ed.), The Blackwell Guide to Hume's Treatise, Blackwell. 2006.This chapter contains section titled: Reception of the Treatise by Francis Hutcheson and Hume's Revisions to Book 3 The Early Reviews of the Treatise and Hume's Response The Principal's Attack in 1745 and Hume's Defence in his Letter from a Gentleman Criticisms of the Treatise after Publication of the Enquiries Thomas Reid's Criticisms of Hume's Philosophy and Hume's Response Hume's Repudiation of the Treatise Conclusion Notes References Further reading.
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11Hume and Hume's Connexions (edited book)Pennsylvania State University Press. 1995.Presenting significant new research on the moral and religious philosophy of David Hume, this volume illustrates the importance of intellectual context in understanding the work and career of one of the most important thinkers of the eighteenth century. Distinctive in its reappraisal of the influence of John Locke, Francis Hutcheson, and others, it examines how Hume reacted to, and in turn affected, other thinkers whose views, like his own, were bound up with specific philosophical, theological,…Read more
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8How do local reverberations achieve global integration?Behavioral and Brain Sciences 18 (4): 644-645. 1995.Amit's Hebbian model risks being overexplanatory, since it does not depend on specific physiological modelling of cortical ANNs, but concentrates on those phenomena which are modelled by a large class of ANNs. While offering a strong demonstration of the presence of Hebb's “cell assemblies,” it does not offer an equal account of Hebb's “phase sequence” concept.
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6Hume's Skeptical RealismIn Wright John (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Hume, . pp. 60-81. 2016.The author argues that the core of Hume’s Academic skepticism lies in his commitment to an external world and objective causal powers that are cognitively opaque to human understanding. Three central topics of Hume’s theory of the understanding are discussed —the existence of absolute space, the existence of a world external to our senses, and the existence of objective causal powers. In each case, Hume draws a Pyrrhonian opposition between judgments based on his “Copy Principle” and the “fictio…Read more
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6Psyche and Soma: Physicians and Metaphysicians on the Mind-Body Problem From (edited book)Oxford University Press UK. 2000.Psyche and Soma is a multi-disciplinary exploration of the conceptions of the human soul or mind and body, through the course of more than two thousand years of Western history. Thirteen specially commissioned chapters, each written by a recogized expert, discuss figures such as the physicians Hippocrates, Galen, Stahl, and Cabanis; theologians St Paul, Augustine, and Aquinas; and philosophers from Plato and Aristotle to Descartes, Leibniz, and La Mettrie. The chapters explore in chronlogical se…Read more
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4Hume's causal realism: Recovering a traditional interpretationIn Rupert J. Read & Kenneth A. Richman (eds.), The New Hume Debate, Routledge. pp. 88--99. 2000.
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3Hume on the origin of 'modern honour' : a study in Hume's philosophical developmentIn Ruth Savage (ed.), Philosophy and religion in Enlightenment Britain: new case studies, Oxford University Press. 2012.
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2Matter, Mind, and Active Principles in Mid-Eighteenth-Century British PhysiologyLumen: Selected Proceedings From the Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies 4 17-27. 1985.
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2RS Woolhouse, Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz: The concept of substance in seventeenth-century metaphysics Reviewed by (review)Philosophy in Review 15 (6): 432-434. 1995.
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1Substance versus Function Dualism in Eighteenth-Century MedicineIn John P. Wright & Paul Potter (eds.), Psyche and Soma: Physicians and Metaphysicians on the Mind-Body Problem From Antiquity to Enlightenment, Clarendon Press. 2002.
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Kemp smith and the two kinds of naturalism in hume's philosophyRivista di Storia Della Filosofia 62 (3): 17-36. 2007.
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The scientific reception of Hume's theory of causation: Establishing the Positivist interpretation in early nineteenth-century ScotlandIn Peter Jones (ed.), The Reception of David Hume in Europe, Thoemmes Continuum. pp. 327--347. 2005.
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