Hume and Hume's Connexions
282 pages | 6 x 9.125 | 1995
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"Hume and Hume's Connexions calls attention to the reality of Hume's historicity and the need to better understand the historical context of his writings. It should find a wide audience in the humanities."—Donald W. Livingston, Emory University
"Stewart and Wright are leaders in the effort to understand Hume through locating his work in the intellectual, social, religious and political contexts of his time. The papers in Hume and Hume's Connexions are a rich and welcome contribution to the project."—Elmer Sprague, Brooklyn College
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, and scientific traditions and commitments. This volume also publishes for the first time in facsimile form the newly discovered fragment on evil.
M. A. Stewart is Professor of the History of Philosophy at the University of Lancaster and is editor of Studies in the Philosophy of the Scottish Enlightenment.
John P. Wright is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Windsor, Ontario, and is the author of The Sceptical Realm of David Hume (Manchester University Press, 1983).
Contents
The
"Affair" at Edinburgh and the "Project" at Glasgow: The Politics
of Hume's Attempts to Become a Professor Roger L. Emerson
Hume
and Hutcheson James Moore
Hume
and the Invention of Utilitarianism Stephen Darwall
Hume
and the Natural Lawyers; A Change of Landscape Pauline C. Westerman
Butler
and Hume on Habit and Moral Character John P. Wright
Hume,
Reid, and the Science of the Mind P. B. Wood
Hume's
Doubts About Probable Reasoning: Was Locke the Target? David
Owen
An
Early Fragment on Evil M. A. Stewart
Hume's
Historical View of Miracles M. A. Stewart
Hume
and the Art of Dialogue Michel Malherbe
Hume
and the Madness of Religion Christopher Bernard
Hume
and Kant on Faith Manfred Kuehn