Subjects
Hume and the Enlightenment
Editors: Craig Taylor and Stephen Buckle
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While Hume remains one of the most central figures in modern philosophy his place within Enlightenment thinking is much less clearly defined. Although historically an Enlightenment figure, this identity is often missed due to misunderstandings of both his philosophy and of the movement itself. Taking recent work on Hume as a starting point, this volume of original essays aims to re-examine and clarify Hume's influence on the thought and values of the Enlightenment.
There are many books on Hume’s philosophy, but few that deal with his influence on Enlightenment thinking and ideas more generally. Indeed, while Hume is now widely regarded as one of the most significant of British philosophers, he was in his day also counted as a weighty essayist and historian. Further, the influences of Hume's empiricism stretch from encouraging the exploration of sentiment in literature to being a forerunner to the new discipline of cognitive science. This volume is a valuable resource to students and researchers seeking to establish what it is that counts as Enlightenment thinking, and whether Hume should really be regarded as a philosopher of the Enlightenment world.
Readership
Philosophy, Political Science, History, Theology, Psychology and Literature
Contents
Introduction
1 Hume and the Enlightenment – Stephen Buckle
2 Will the real Enlightenment historian please stand up! David Hume versus Catharine Macaulay – Karen Green
3 Hume’s Enlightenment Aesthetics and Philosophy of Mathematics – Dale Jacquette
4 Contingency, Necessity, and Causality in the Cosmological-Ontological Proof – Stanley Tweyman
5 A Modern Malignant Demon? Hume’s Scepticism with Regard to Reason (Partly) Vindicated – George Couvalis
6 Hume on Sympathy and Cruelty – Craig Taylor
7 Hume’s Theory of Moral Imagination: Sympathy, Benevolence, and the General Point of View – Mark Collier
8 Hume and Rawls on the Stability of a Society’s System of Justice – Ian Hunt
9 Was David Hume a satirist? – Robert Phiddian
10 Can Hume’s Impressions of Reflection Represent? – Anna Stoklosa