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The Blackwell Guide to Hume’s Treatise Blackwell Guides to Great Works A proper understanding of philosophy requires engagement with the foundational texts that have shaped the development of the discipline and which have an abiding relevance to contemporary discussions. Each volume in this series provides guid- ance to those coming to the great works of the philosophical canon, whether for the frst time or to gain new insight. Comprising specially commissioned contribu- tions from the fnest scholars, each book offers a clear and authoritative account of the context, arguments, and impact of the work at hand. Where possible the original text is reproduced alongside the essays. Published 1 The Blackwell Guide to Plato’s Republic Gerasimos Santas 2 The Blackwell Guide to Descartes’ Meditations Stephen Gaukroger 3 The Blackwell Guide to Mill’s Utilitarianism Henry R. 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No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, except as permitted by the UK Copyright, Designs, and Patents Act 1988, without the prior permission of the publisher. First published 2006 by Blackwell Publishing Ltd 1 2006 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Blackwell guide to Hume’s Treatise/edited by Saul Traiger. p. cm. – (Blackwell guides to great works) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN-13: 978-1-4051-1508-7 (hardback : alk. paper) ISBN-10: 1-4051-1508-4 (hardback : alk. paper) ISBN-13: 978-1-4051-1509-4 (pbk. : alk. paper) ISBN-10: 1-4051-1509-2 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Hume, David, 1711–1776. Treatise of human nature. 2. Knowledge, Theory of. 3. Emotions (Philosophy) 4. Ethics. I. Traiger, Saul. II. Series. B1489.B53 2006 128–dc22 2005021975 A catalogue record for this title is available from the British Library. Set in 10 on 13 pt Galliard by SNP Best-set Typesetter Ltd, Hong Kong Printed and bound in the United Kingdom by TJ International, Padstow, Cornwall The publisher’s policy is to use permanent paper from mills that operate a sustainable forestry policy, and which has been manufactured from pulp processed using acid-free and elementary chlorine-free practices. Furthermore, the publisher ensures that the text paper and cover board used have met acceptable environmental accreditation standards. For further information on Blackwell Publishing, visit our website: www.blackwellpublishing.com Contents Notes on Contributors vii References to the Treatise, Abstract, and Enquiries x Editor’s Introduction 1 PART I: Formulation, Reception, and Scope of the Treatise 3 1 The Treatise: Composition, Reception, and Response 5 John P. Wright 2 Hume’s Other Writings 26 Wade L. Robison PART II: The Understanding 41 3 Impressions and Ideas 43 Janet Broughton 4 Space and Time 59 Lorne Falkenstein 5 Belief, Probability, Normativity 77 William Edward Morris 6 Causation 95 Abraham Sesshu Roth 7 Identity, Continued Existence, and the External World 114 Donald L. M. Baxter vi cont ents 8 Personal Identity and the Skeptical System of Philosophy 133 Corliss Gayda Swain 9 Hume’s Conclusions in “Conclusion of this Book” 151 Don Garrett PART III: The Passions 177 10 The Powers and Mechanisms of the Passions 179 Lilli Alanen 11 Hume’s “New and Extraordinary” Account of the Passions 199 Jane L. McIntyre 12 Liberty, Necessity, and the Will 216 Tony Pitson PART IV: Morals 233 13 Reason, Passion, and the Infuencing Motives of the Will 235 Mikael M. Karlsson 14 Hume’s Artifcial and Natural Virtues 256 Rachel Cohon 15 Virtue and the Evaluation of Character 276 Jacqueline Taylor Index 297 Notes on Contributors Lilli Alanen is Professor of Philosophy at Uppsala University. She is the author of Descartes’s Concept of Mind (2003) and numerous articles in Early Modern Philosophy. She is a co-editor of Commonality and Particularity in Ethics (1997) and Feminist Refections on the History of Philosophy (2004), and is presently working on a book entitled Passions and the Transformation of Reason: Descartes, Spinoza, and Hume. Donald L. M. Baxter is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Connecticut. He writes mostly in Metaphysics and Early Modern Philosophy. Recent work on Hume includes “Hume on steadfast objects and time” (Hume Studies, 2001), and “Hume’s theory of space and time in its skeptical context,” forthcoming in The Cambridge Companion to Hume, 2nd edition, edited by David Fate Norton. Janet Broughton is Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of Descartes’s Method of Doubt (2002); with John Carriero, she is co-editing The Blackwell Companion to Descartes. Rachel Cohon is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University at Albany, State University of New York. She is the editor of Hume: Moral and Political Philosophy (2001) and author of several articles about Hume’s moral philosophy and about the relation between morality and reasons, including “The common point of view in Hume’s ethics” (Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 1997) and “The roots of reasons” (Philosophical Review, 2000). Lorne Falkenstein is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Western Ontario. He is the author of Kant’s Intuitionism and of numerous articles on space and spatial representation in Hume, Reid, Kant, Berkeley, and Condillac. viii notes on co ntributors Don Garrett is Professor of Philosophy at New York University. He is the author of Cognition and Commitment in Hume’s Philosophy and the editor of The Cambridge Companion to Spinoza. Mikael M. Karlsson is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Iceland, and Dean of the Faculty of Law and Social Sciences at the University of Akureyri. He is a long-standing member of the Hume Society and has served on its executive committee and as its Secretary-Treasurer. His recent publications include “Rational ends: Humean and non-Humean considerations” (Sats – Nordic Journal of Philosophy, 2000) and “Agency and patiency – back to nature?” (Philosophical Explorations, 2002). Jane L. McIntyre is Professor of Philosophy at Cleveland State University and President of the Hume Society. She has published widely on British philosophy of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and, in particular, on the work of David Hume. Her papers all argue for the centrality of Hume’s account of the passions to his overall philosophical position. William Edward Morris is Chair of the Department of Philosophy and Director of the Program in Cognitive Science at Illinois Wesleyan University. He was an editor of Hume Studies from 1993 to 2000, and has published extensively on various aspects of Hume’s philosophy. Tony Pitson is Honorary Research Fellow in Philosophy at the University of Stirling. He has published widely on the philosophy of the Scottish Enlightenment and is the author of Hume’s Philosophy of the Self (2002). Wade L. Robison is the Ezra A. Hale Professor of Applied Ethics at the Rochester Institute of Technology. He is a past president of the Hume Society. His books include Decisions in Doubt: the Environment and Public Policy (1994) and Ethical Decision Making in Social Work (2000), with L. Reeser. Abraham Sesshu Roth is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is author of several papers on Hume, including “What was Hume’s problem with personal identity?” (Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 2000), as well as papers in the philosophy of action, including “Shared agency and contralateral commitments” (forthcoming in Philosophical Review). Corliss Gayda Swain is Associate Professor of Philosophy at St Olaf College and the Executive Secretary-Treasurer of the Hume Society. She has written numerous articles on Hume’s metaphysics and moral theory. Jacqueline Taylor is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of San Francisco. She has written numerous articles on Hume’s moral philosophy and on notes on co ntributors ix contemporary Humean ethics, including “Hume on the standard of virtue” (Journal of Ethics, 2002) and “Humean ethics and the politics of sentiment” (Topoi, 2002). John P. Wright is Professor of Philosophy at Central Michigan University and Visiting Professor at the University of Edinburgh. He is author of The Sceptical Realism of David Hume (1983), and co-editor of Hume and Hume’s Connexions (1994), Psyche and Soma (2000), John Locke: An Essay Concerning Human Understanding in Focus (2000), and David Hume’s A Treatise of Human Nature (2003). References to the Treatise, Abstract, and Enquiries References to A Treatise of Human Nature (T), An Abstract of A Treatise of Human Nature (A), An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (EHU), and An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals (EPM) are to the Oxford Philosophical Texts editions: A Treatise of Human Nature, edited by David Fate Norton and Mary Norton, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. An Abstract of A Treatise of Human Nature, in A Treatise of Human Nature, edited by David Fate Norton and Mary Norton, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, edited by Thomas Beauchamp, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2000. An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals, edited by Thomas Beauchamp, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998. For the Treatise, citations are by Book, Part, section, and paragraph number in arabic numerals (the style of the new editions) and also by page number from the Selby-Bigge/Nidditch edition (SBN). A citation to the Treatise will look like: (T 1.4.2.3; SBN 188–9) For the Abstract, citations are by paragraph number and by corresponding page number in the Selby-Bigge/Nidditch edition. For the Preface to the Abstract, “A Pref.” is used. Sample citations are: (A 3; SBN 646) (A Pref. 1; SBN 643) For the Enquiries, citations are by section and paragraph number, and by page number from the Selby-Bigge/Nidditch edition. Sample citations are:

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