A Companion to Hume

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Elizabeth S. Radcliffe is Professor of Philosophy at Santa Clara University. Her areas of specialization include Hume, ethical theory, motivational psychology, and seventeenth- and eighteenth-century philosophy. She is the author of On Hume (2000), editor of A Companion to Hume (Blackwell, 2007), and was co-editor of the journal Hume Studies from 2000 to 2005.

Notes on Contributors	p. viii
Acknowledgments	p. xii
Note on Citations	p. xiii
Introduction	p. 1
Hume's Context	p. 19
Hume in the Enlightenment Tradition	p. 21
Mind and Knowledge	p. 39
Hume's Theory of Ideas	p. 41
Hume on Memory and Imagination	p. 58
Hume and the Origin of Our Ideas of Space and Time	p. 72
Hume on the Relation of Cause and Effect	p. 89
Inductive Inference in Hume's Philosophy	p. 106
Hume on Belief in the External World	p. 126
Hume on Personal Identity	p. 140
Passions and Action	p. 157
Hume's Indirect Passions	p. 159
Hume on the Direct Passions and Motivation	p. 185
Hume on Liberty and Necessity	p. 201
Morality and Beauty	p. 217
Hume on Moral Rationalism, Sentimentalism, and Sympathy	p. 219
Sympathy and Hume's Spectator-centered Theory of Virtue	p. 240
Hume's Theory of Justice, or Artificial Virtue	p. 257
Hume on Beauty and Virtue	p. 273
Enquiry concerning the Principles of Morals: Incomparably the Best?	p. 293
Religion	p. 321
Hume's Views on Religion: Intellectual and Cultural Influences	p. 323
Hume on the Nature and Existence of God	p. 338
Hume on Miracles and Immortality	p. 353
Economics, Politics, and History	p. 371
Hume's Economic Theory	p. 373
"One of the Finest and Most Subtile Inventions": Hume on Government	p. 388
"The Most Illustrious Philosopher and Historian of the Age": Hume's History of England	p. 406
Contemporary Themes	p. 423
Hume's Naturalism and His Skepticism	p. 425
Is Hume a Realist or an Anti-realist?	p. 441
Hume's Epistemological Legacy	p. 457
The Humean Theory of Motivation and Its Critics	p. 477
The Sources of Normativity in Hume's Moral Theory	p. 493
Hume's Metaethics: Is Hume a Moral Noncognitivist?	p. 513
Bibliography	p. 529
Index	p. 553
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