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The Oxford Handbook of H U M E The Oxford Handbook of HUME Edited by PAUL RUSSELL 1 3 Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. It furthers the University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide. Oxford New York Auckland Cape Town Dar es Salaam Hong Kong Karachi Kuala Lumpur Madrid Melbourne Mexico City Nairobi New Delhi Shanghai Taipei Toronto With offices in Argentina Austria Brazil Chile Czech Republic France Greece Guatemala Hungary Italy Japan Poland Portugal Singapore South Korea Switzerland Thailand Turkey Ukraine Vietnam Oxford is a registered trademark of Oxford University Press in the UK and certain other countries. Published in the United States of America by Oxford University Press 198 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016 © Oxford University Press 2016 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of Oxford University Press, or as expressly permitted by law, by license, or under terms agreed with the appropriate reproduction rights organization. Inquiries concerning reproduction outside the scope of the above should be sent to the Rights Department, Oxford University Press, at the address above. You must not circulate this work in any other form and you must impose this same condition on any acquirer. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data The Oxford handbook of Hume / Edited by Paul Russell. pages cm Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978–0–19–974284–4 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1. Hume, David, 1711–1776. I. Russell, Paul, 1955– editor. B1498.O94 2015 192—dc23 2015016482 1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2 Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper In memory of Annette Baier (1929–2012) Contents Acknowledgments  xi Abbreviations of References to Hume’s Writings  xiii List of Contributors  xv Introduction  xix 1. Hume’s Life and Works  1 James A. Harris PART I CENTRAL THEMES 2. Naturalism and Skepticism in the Philosophy of Hume  21 Barry Stroud 3. Reason, Normativity, and Hume’s “Title Principle”  32 Don Garrett 4. Reflexivity and Sentiment in Hume’s Philosophy  54 Annette Baier 5. Hume’s Skeptical Realism  60 John P. Wright 6. Hume’s Chief Argument  82 Peter Millican 7. Hume’s Philosophy of Irreligion and the Myth of British Empiricism  109 Paul Russell PART II METAPHYSICS AND EPISTEMOLOGY 8. Hume’s Theory of Ideas  141 Wayne Waxman viii Contents 9. Hume and the Molyneux Problem  158 Henry E. Allison 10. Hume on Space and Time  173 Donald L. M. Baxter 11. Hume’s Skeptical Logic of Induction  191 Kenneth P. Winkler 12. Hume and the Problem of Causation  228 Helen Beebee 13. Hume on the External World  249 Georges Dicker 14. Hume on Personal Identity  269 Galen Strawson PART III PASSION, MORALITY, AND POLITICS 15. Hume on Pride and the Other Indirect Passions  295 Jacqueline Taylor 16. The Nature and Functions of Sympathy in Hume’s Philosophy  312 Rico Vitz 17. Reason, Belief, and the Passions  333 David Owen 18. Hume on Practical Reason: Against the Normative Authority of Reason  356 Karl Schafer 19. Hume, Free Will, and Moral Responsibility  380 Tony Pitson 20. Hume on Is and Ought: Logic, Promises, and the Duke of Wellington  401 Charles Pigden 21. Hume, Morality, and Skepticism  416 Simon Blackburn Contents ix 22. Hume on the Artificial Virtues  435 Geoffrey Sayre-McCord 23. Hume and Virtue Ethics  470 Christine Swanton 24. Hume’s Political Philosophy  489 Neil McArthur PART IV AESTHETICS, HISTORY, AND ECONOMICS 25. Hume, Kant, and the Standard of Taste  507 Paul Guyer 26. Hume’s Taste and the Rationalist Critique  531 Peter Kivy 27. Hume’s History of England  546 Donald T. Siebert 28. Hume’s Philosophical Economics  569 Tatsuya Sakamoto PART V RELIGION 29. Hume on Miracles: It’s Part 2 That Matters  591 Michael Levine 30. Hume and Proofs for the Existence of God  607 Martin Bell 31. Hume on Evil  623 Samuel Newlands 32. Hume’s Natural History of Religion  646 Keith E. Yandell 33. Hume on Suicide  660 Eugenio Lecaldano

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The Scottish philosopher David Hume (1711-1776) is widely regarded as the greatest and most significant English-speaking philosopher and often seen as having had the most influence on the way philosophy is practiced today in the West. His reputation is based not only on the quality of his philosophi
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