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my system, all reasonings are nothing but the effects of custom; and custom has no influence, but by enlivening the imagination, and giving us a strong conception of any object." (TI.3.13: 149) David Hume's conclusion that "all reasonings are nothing but the effects of custom" has a considerable impact on how one interprets Hume's views on the role and ability of human reason. If reason is reducible to habit or custom we have to ask if Hume's own use of reason is similarly reducible. Likewise, how can Hume put forward his positive "science of man" when this "science" is actually a version of "custom"? Or better put, how does Hume's view of custom affect how one interprets the apparent tensions that exist between his skeptical philosophy and his positive naturalism?
A Bibliography of Hume's Writings and Early Responses
This document contains two separate bibliographies. The first is a “Bibliography of Hume’s Writings” that I constructed for my own benefit while preparing the Early Responses to Hume series. The second is “A Bibliography of Early Responses to Hume,” which is taken directly from the final pages of Early Responses to Hume’s Life and Reputation (2005).
The Cambridge Companion to Hume (review)
Journal of the History of Philosophy, 1995
This excellent anthology, which has already emerged as an oft-cited source in Hume scholarship, is a first rate collection of essays. With certainty that the community of Hume scholars are already engaged in discussion of the particular points of the individual essays, this review provides an overview of the collection and its value for a broad audience. The Cambridge Companion to
Hume on the principles of natural philosophy
Both in the Introduction to the Treatise of Human Nature and in the Abstract, Hume expressly declared that his goal was to contribute to the development of a "science of man" methodologically akin to the natural sciences, and capable of emulating their "accuracy" and explanatory success. He regarded these sciences as starting from careful observation of phenomena, and proceeding to the establishment of "principles" of increasing generality. Although rejecting as vain any hope of discovering "the ultimate principles" of any science, he did not make clear what exactly he thought the principles actually involved in natural philosophy are. This article aims to shed some light on this issue through a survey and examination of the principles of Hume's "science of man", and of the most representative examples of principles of natural philosophy considered by Hume.
To be published in Paul Russell (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Hume. Argues that Hume's career should be seen as that of a highly successful eighteenth-century man of letters, not as that of a would-be academic philosopher frustrated by incomprehension and intolerance.
Early Responses to Hume's History, Part 2
This PDF file is part of a 10 Volume series titled "Early Responses to Hume." The printed version of the 10-volume set is under copyright by the original publisher. The electronic version is under copyright by the author, James Fieser, and is available under Creative Commons license Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND). The individual volumes are these: Vol. 1: Early Responses to Hume’s Moral Theory Vol. 2: Early Responses to Hume's Essays Vols. 3 and 4: Early Responses to Hume's Metaphysical and Epistemological Writings Vols. 5 and 6: Early Responses to Hume’s Writings on Religion Vols. 7 and 8: Early Responses to Hume’s History of England Vols. 9 and 10: Early Hume’s Life and Reputation, with Bibliography of Early Responses to Hume and Indexes to all 10 volumes.
Review of David Hume, Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary - Beauchamp & Box, eds.
Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, 2023
The new two volume edition of Hume’s Essays, Moral, Political and Literary, edited by Tom Beauchamp and Mark Box, is the first critical edition.[3] What primarily distinguishes a critical edition is that it collates the copy-text with all other editions and provides a complete record of variations in the texts. Beauchamp and Box provide readers with detailed, informative notes and annotations that describe the variations and revisions that have been made to the Essays published within Hume’s lifetime. They also provide a table that catalogues the contents of the various editions from 1741 to 1771 and several helpful appendixes relating to their publication. The final text of the essays has been carefully edited and annotated. The second volume contains the editors’ extensive annotations, which are both informed and illuminating. All the editorial work has been done with enormous attention to detail and precision....