Coventry Angela Michelle - The Humean mind

David Hume (17111776) is widely acknowledged as one of the most important philosophers in the English language, with his work continuing to exert major influence on philosophy today. His empiricism, naturalism, and psychology of the mind and the passions shape many positions and approaches in the sciences and social sciences.

The Humean Mind seeks to provide a comprehensive survey of his work, not only placing it in its historical context but also exploring its contemporary significance. Comprising 38 chapters by a team of international contributors, the Handbook is divided into four sections:

• Intellectual context.
• Humes thought.
• Humes reception.
• Humes legacy.

This handbook includes coverage of all major aspects of Humes thought with essays spanning the full scope of Humes philosophy. Topics explored include Humes reception in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; Humes legacy in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries; Humes history, including an essay on Hume as historian, as well as essays on the relevance of history to Humes philosophy and his politics, and an updated treatment of Humes Legal Philosophy. Also included are essays on race, gender, and animal ethics.

Essential reading for students and researchers in philosophy, Humes work is central to epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of mind, philosophy of science, ethics, legal philosophy and philosophy of religion.

Angela M. Coventry is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Portland State University, USA. She is the author of Humes Theory of Causation: A Quasi-Realist Interpretation (2006) and Hume: A Guide for the Perplexed (2007), co-editor (with Andrew Valls) of the volume David Hume: Morals, Politics and Society (2018), in addition to several articles and book reviews published in journals such as Hume Studies, Locke Studies, Logical Analysis and History of Philosophy, and History of Philosophy Quarterly. She has served as Vice President and Executive Secretary-Treasurer of The Hume Society and as co-editor of the journal Hume Studies.

Alex Sager is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Philosophy at Portland State University, USA. He has published widely in social and political philosophy on topics including migration, citizenship, and methodology, as well as on the political thought of David Hume.

In philosophy past and present there are some philosophers who tower over the intellectual landscape and have shaped it in indelible ways. So significant is their impact that it is difficult to capture it in one place. The Routledge Philosophical Minds series presents a comprehensive survey of all aspects of a major philosophers work, from analysis and criticism of their major texts and arguments to the way their ideas are taken up in contemporary philosophy and beyond. Edited by leading figures in their fields and with an outstanding international roster of contributors the series offers a magisterial and unrivalled picture of a great philosophical mind.

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Edited by Angela M. Coventry and Alex Sager

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Names: Coventry, Angela Michelle, editor. | Sager, Alex, edtior.

Title: The Humean mind / edited by Angela M. Coventry and Alex Sager.

Description: First edition. | Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019. | Series: The Routledge philosophical minds | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2018029330 (print) | LCCN 2018040623 (ebook) | ISBN 9780429429996 (eBook) | ISBN 9781138909878 (hardback : alk. paper) | ISBN 9780429429996 (ebk)

Subjects: LCSH: Hume, David, 17111776.

Classification: LCC B1498 (ebook) | LCC B1498 .H929 2019 (print) | DDC 192dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018029330

ISBN: 978-1-138-90987-8 (hbk)

ISBN: 978-0-429-42999-6 (ebk)

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