Companion to Hume

Elizabeth S. Radcliffe is Professor of Philosophy at The College of William and Mary. She has published on the British Moralists and on Hume’s metaethics and motivational psychology. She was co-editor of the journal Hume Studies, with Kenneth Winkler, from 2000 until 2005. She is currently working on issues surrounding the contemporary Humean theory of motivation and its connection to Hume.

"This is a superb collection of essays by both established Hume scholars and newer names in Hume studies . . . such books do this job very well and this one on Hume especially so: the reader is fortunate to have as guides, Louis Loeb on induction, Rachel Cohon on the passions, and Terence Penelhum on religion, to pick, as examples, just three of the excellent range of authors". (Metapsychology Online Reviews, 2011) "Blackwell's fortieth Companion to Philosophy is a splendid and long-overdue Companion to Hume, expertly pulled together by Elizabeth Radcliffe, a former editor of the journal Hume Studies. Although the Blackwell Companions are promoted as a student reference series, this particular volume is clearly of considerable value to serious scholars as well." (Religion in the Age of Enlightenment, December 2010)"One distinctive feature of this Blackwell Companion to Hume is that it attempts to be more careful than is common with books of its sort to mark a distinction between explicating Hume's own ideas and arguments, and assessing their relevance to present-day philosophical discussion." (Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, February 2009)"[The book is] highly approachable, well-organized, and—in a field where a lot is published—a distinctive addition." (Reference Reviews, Issue 7 2008)"The essays are of uniformly high quality, and many are written by well-established, respected philosophers.... David Hume is widely recognized as one of the most important and influential figures in modern philosophy. Every library should have a copy of this valuable resource, which will appeal to anyone interested in Hume's philosophy. Highly recommended." (Choice)

• Notes on Contributors viiiAcknowledgments xiiNote on Citations xiiiIntroduction 1Hume’s Context 191 Hume in the Enlightenment Tradition 21Stephen BucklePart I Mind and Knowledge 392 Hume’s Theory of Ideas 41Don Garrett3 Hume on Memory and Imagination 58Saul Traiger4 Hume and the Origin of Our Ideas of Space and Time 72Wayne Waxman5 Hume on the Relation of Cause and Effect 89Francis Watanabe Dauer6 Inductive Inference in Hume’s Philosophy 106Louis E. Loeb7 Hume on Belief in the External World 126Michel Malherbe8 Hume on Personal Identity 140Donald C. AinsliePart II Passions and Action 1579 Hume’s Indirect Passions 159Rachel Cohon10 Hume on the Direct Passions and Motivation 185Tito Magri11 Hume on Liberty and Necessity 201John BrickePart III Morality and Beauty 21712 Hume on Moral Rationalism, Sentimentalism, and Sympathy 219Charlotte R. Brown13 Sympathy and Hume’s Spectator-centered Theory of Virtue 240Kate Abramson14 Hume’s Theory of Justice, or Artificial Virtue 257Eugenio Lecaldano15 Hume on Beauty and Virtue 273Jacqueline Taylor16 Enquiry concerning the Principles of Morals: Incomparably the Best? 293Annette C. BaierPart IV Religion 32117 Hume’s Views on Religion: Intellectual and Cultural Influences 323Terence Penelhum18 Hume on the Nature and Existence of God 338Martin Bell19 Hume on Miracles and Immortality 353Michael P. LevinePart V Economics, Politics, and History 37120 Hume’s Economic Theory 373Tatsuya Sakamoto21 “One of the Finest and Most Subtile Inventions”: Hume on Government 388Richard H. Dees22 “The Most Illustrious Philosopher and Historian of the Age”: Hume’s History of England 406Mark Salber PhillipsPart VI Contemporary Themes 42323 Hume’s Naturalism and His Skepticism 425Janet Broughton24 Is Hume a Realist or an Anti-realist? 441P. J. E. Kail25 Hume’s Epistemological Legacy 457William Edward Morris26 The Humean Theory of Motivation and Its Critics 477Elizabeth S. Radcliffe27 The Sources of Normativity in Hume’s Moral Theory 493Tom L. Beauchamp28 Hume’s Metaethics: Is Hume a Moral Noncognitivist? 513Nicholas L. SturgeonBibliography 529Index 553