The Oxford Handbook of Hume

Paul Russell is Professor in Philosophy at the University of British Columbia and Lund University. His publications include Freedom and Moral Sentiment: Hume's Way of Naturalizing Responsibility (Oxford University Press, 1995); The Riddle of Hume's Treatise: Skepticism, Naturalism, and Irreligion (Oxford University Press, 2008); and The Limits of Free Will (Oxford University Press, 2017).

The Oxford Handbook of Hume, edited by Paul Russell, is an impressive collection of essays on the philosophical accomplishments and legacies of David Hume. In total 38 articles provide over 800 pages of first-rate Hume scholarship ... This collection is impressively comprehensive in its overview of Hume scholarship, and as such is an excellent and arguably essential addition to the library of anyone with a serious interest in the philosophy of David Hume.

• Introduction & AcknowledgementsAbbreviations References to Hume's Writings List of Contributors 1. Hume's Life and Works - James Harris Part I Central Themes2. Naturalism and Skepticism in the Philosophy of Hume - Barry Stroud3. Reason, Normativity and Hume's "Title Principle" - Don Garrett4. Reflexivity and Sentiment in Hume's Philosophy - Annette Baier 5. Hume's Skeptical Realism - John Wright6. Hume's Chief Argument - Peter Millican7. Hume's Philosophy of Irreligion and the Myth of British Empiricism - Paul Russell Part II Metaphysics and Epistemology8. Hume's Theory of Ideas - Wayne Waxman9. Hume and the Molyneux Problem - Henry E. Allison10. Hume on Space and Time - Donald L. M. Baxter11. Hume's Skeptical Logic of Induction - Kenneth P. Winkler12. Hume and the Problem of Causation - Helen Beebee 13. Hume on the External World - Georges Dicker14. Hume on Personal Identity - Galen Strawson Part III Passion, Morality and Politics15. Hume on Pride and the Other Indirect Passions - Jacqueline Taylor 16. The Nature and Functions of Sympathy in Hume's Philosophy - Rico Vitz17. Reason, Belief, and the Passions - David Owen 18. Hume on Practical Reason: Against the Normative Authority of Reason - Karl Schafer 19. Hume, Free Will, and Moral Responsibility - Tony Pitson20. Hume on Is and Ought: Logic, Promises, and the Duke of Wellington- Charles Pigden21. Hume, Morality, and Skepticism - Simon Blackburn22. Hume on the Artificial Virtues - Geoffrey Sayre-McCord 23. Hume and Virtue Ethics - Christine Swanton24. Hume's Political Philosophy - Neil McArthur Part IV Aesthetics, History, and Economics 25. Hume, Kant and the Standard of Taste - Paul Guyer26. Hume's Taste and the Rationalist Critique - Peter Kivy 27. Hume's History of England - Donald T. Siebert28. Hume's Philosophical Economics - Tatsuya Sakamoto Religion29. Hume on Miracles: It's Part 2 that Matters - Michael Levine30. Hume and Proofs for the Existence of God - Martin Bell 31.Hume on Evil - Samuel Newlands32. Hume's Natural History of Religion - Keith Yandell33. Hume on Suicide - Eugenio Lecaldano Part V Hume and the Enlightenment 34. Newton and Hume- Yoram Hazony & Eric Schliesser 35. Hume and Smith on Moral Philosophy - Ryan Patrick Hanley36. Hume and the Contemporary "Common Sense" Critique of Hume - Lorne Falkenstein Part VI After Hume37. Hume and Nietzsche - Peter Kail 38. Hume and Cognitive Science - Jesse Prinz Bibliography and Further Reading Index