Hume and Hume's Connexions

by Stewart, M. A.; Wright, John P.

• ISBN13: 9780271014241
• ISBN10: 0271014245
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1995-01-01
• Publisher: Pennsylvania State Univ Pr

Summary

Presenting significant new research particularly 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.

Table of Contents

Notes on contributors
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Introduction
The "affair" at Edinburgh and the "project" at Glasgow: the politics of Hume's attempts to become a professor	p. 1
Hume and Hutcheson	p. 23
Hume and the invention of utilitarianism	p. 58
Hume and the natural lawyers: a change of landscape	p. 83
Butler and Hume on habit and moral character	p. 105
Hume, Reid and the science of the mind	p. 119
Hume's doubts about probable reasoning: was Locke the target?	p. 140
An early fragment on evil	p. 160
Hume's historical view of miracles	p. 171
Hume and the art of dialogue	p. 201
Hume and the madness of religion	p. 224
Kant's critique of Hume's theory of faith	p. 239
Index	p. 256
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