The Cambridge Companion to Hume

by Edited by David Fate Norton , Jacqueline Taylor

• ISBN13: 9780521677349
• ISBN10: 0521677343
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-12-08
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Although best known for his contributions to the theory of knowledge, metaphysics, and philosophy of religion, Hume also influenced developments in the philosophy of mind, psychology, ethics, political and economic theory, political and social history, and aesthetic theory. The fifteen essays in this volume address all aspects of Hume's thought. The picture of him that emerges is that of a thinker who, though often critical to the point of scepticism, was nonetheless able to build on that scepticism a constructive, viable, and profoundly important view of the world. Also included in this volume are Hume's two brief autobiographies and a bibliography suited to those beginning their study of Hume. This second edition of one our most popular Companions includes six new essays and a new introduction, and the remaining essays have all been updated or revised.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors	p. ix
Preface to the Second Edition	p. xiii
Method of Citation	p. xv
List of Abbreviations	p. xvii
An Introduction to Hume's Thought	p. 1
Hume's New Science of the Mind	p. 40
Hume and the Mechanics of Mind: Impressions, Ideas, and Association	p. 70
Hume's Theory of Space and Time in Its Skeptical Context	p. 105
Hume on Causation	p. 147
Hume and the Problem of Personal Identity	p. 177
Hume's Skepticism	p. 209
Hume's Moral Psychology	p. 238
The Foundations of Morality in Hume's Treatise	p. 270
Hume's Later Moral Philosophy	p. 311
The Structure of Hume's Political Theory	p. 341
Hume's Principles of Political Economy	p. 381
Hume on the Arts and "The Standard of Taste": Texts and Contexts	p. 414
David Hume: "The Historian"	p. 447
Hume on Religion	p. 480
Hume's Autobiographies	p. 515
A Kind of History of My Life (1734)	p. 515
My Own Life (1776)	p. 522
Selected Bibliography	p. 531
Index	p. 539
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