Notes on Contributors viii
Acknowledgments xii
Note on Citations xiii
Introduction 1
Humes Context 19
1 Hume in the Enlightenment Tradition 21
Stephen Buckle
Part I Mind and Knowledge 39
2 Humes Theory of Ideas 41
Don Garrett
3 Hume on Memory and Imagination 58
Saul Traiger
4 Hume and the Origin of Our Ideas of Space and Time 72
Wayne Waxman
5 Hume on the Relation of Cause and Effect 89
Francis Watanabe Dauer
6 Inductive Inference in Humes Philosophy 106
Louis E. Loeb
7 Hume on Belief in the External World 126
Michel Malherbe
8 Hume on Personal Identity 140
Donald C. Ainslie
Part II Passions and Action 157
9 Humes Indirect Passions 159
Rachel Cohon
10 Hume on the Direct Passions and Motivation 185
Tito Magri
11 Hume on Liberty and Necessity 201
John Bricke
Part III Morality and Beauty 217
12 Hume on Moral Rationalism, Sentimentalism, and Sympathy 219
Charlotte R. Brown
13 Sympathy and Humes Spectator-centered Theory of Virtue 240
Kate Abramson
14 Humes Theory of Justice, or Artificial Virtue 257
Eugenio Lecaldano
15 Hume on Beauty and Virtue 273
Jacqueline Taylor
16 Enquiry concerning the Principles of Morals: Incomparably the Best? 293
Annette C. Baier
Part IV Religion 321
17 Humes Views on Religion: Intellectual and Cultural Influences 323
Terence Penelhum
18 Hume on the Nature and Existence of God 338
Martin Bell
19 Hume on Miracles and Immortality 353
Michael P. Levine
Part V Economics, Politics, and History 371
20 Humes Economic Theory 373
Tatsuya Sakamoto
21 One of the Finest and Most Subtile Inventions: Hume on Government 388
Richard H. Dees
22 The Most Illustrious Philosopher and Historian of the Age: Humes History of England 406
Mark Salber Phillips
Part VI Contemporary Themes 423
23 Humes Naturalism and His Skepticism 425
Janet Broughton
24 Is Hume a Realist or an Anti-realist? 441
P. J. E. Kail
25 Humes Epistemological Legacy 457
William Edward Morris
26 The Humean Theory of Motivation and Its Critics 477
Elizabeth S. Radcliffe
27 The Sources of Normativity in Humes Moral Theory 493
Tom L. Beauchamp
28 Humes Metaethics: Is Hume a Moral Noncognitivist? 513
Nicholas L. Sturgeon
Bibliography 529
Index 553