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The Cambridge Companion to Humes Treatise

Revered for his contributions to empiricism, skepticism, and ethics, David Hume remains one of the most important figures in the history of Western philosophy. His first and broadest work, A Treatise of Human Nature (173940), comprises three volumes, concerning the understanding, the passions, and morals. He develops a naturalist and empiricist program, illustrating that the mind operates through the association of impressions and ideas. This companion features essays by leading scholars, who evaluate the philosophical content of the arguments in Humes Treatise , while considering their historical context. The authors examine Humes distinctive views on causation, motivation, free will, moral evaluation, and the origins of justice, which continue to influence present-day philosophical debate. This collection will prove a valuable resource for students and scholars exploring Hume, British empiricism, and modern philosophy.

DONALD C. AINSLIE is the Principal of University College and Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto. He has published articles in numerous journals, including Philosophy and Phenomenological Research , Journal of the History of Philosophy , the Canadian Journal of Philosophy , Hume Studies , and Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics .

ANNEMARIE BUTLER is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Iowa State University and book review editor for Hume Studies . Her articles have appeared in the British Journal for the History of Philosophy , History of Philosophy Quarterly , Journal of Scottish Philosophy , Hume Studies , and Dialogue .

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The Cambridge Companion to Humes Treatise

Edited by

Donald C. Ainslie

University of Toronto

Annemarie Butler

Iowa State University

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The Cambridge companion to Humes Treatise / [edited by] Donald C. Ainslie,

University of Toronto; Annemarie Butler, Iowa State University.

pages cm. (Cambridge companions to philosophy)

1. Hume, David, 17111776. Treatise of human nature.

2. Knowledge, Theory of. I. Ainslie, Donald C., editor. II. Butler,

Annemarie, editor.

B1489.C36 2015

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ISBN 978-0-521-82167-4 Hardback

ISBN 978-0-521-52914-3 Paperback

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Contents

Annemarie Butler

Amlie Oksenberg Rorty

Lorne Falkenstein

Don Garrett

David Owen

Kenneth P. Winkler

Annemarie Butler

Jacqueline Taylor

Terence Penelhum

Paul Russell

Nicholas L. Sturgeon

Donald C. Ainslie

Tito Magri

Kate Abramson

Contributors

Kate Abramson is an Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Indiana University. Her work focuses principally on eighteenth-century philosophy (especially Hume and Smith) and contemporary ethics. Her work has been supported by a fellowship from the Rockefeller Center for Human Values at Princeton and a grant from the ACLS.

Donald C. Ainslie is an Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy and the Principal of University College at the University of Toronto. His primary research focus is early modern philosophy, and he has published extensively on the works of David Hume. He has a secondary research project in bioethics.

Annemarie Butler is an Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Iowa State University. She is book review editor of Hume Studies . Her publications focus on Part 4 of Book 1 of Humes Treatise and Humes first Enquiry .

Lorne Falkenstein holds the rank of Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Western University in London, Canada. His work is principally focused on spatial perception and mental representation in eighteenth-century philosophy.

Don Garrett is Professor and Chair of the Department of Philosophy at New York University. He has taught previously at Harvard University, the University of Utah, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he was Kenan Distinguished Professor for Teaching Excellence. He is the author of Cognition and Commitment in Humes Philosophy (1997) and the forthcoming Hume . In addition, he is the editor of The Cambridge Companion to Spinoza and has served as editor of Hume Studies and as North American editor of the Archiv fr Geschichte der Philosophie .

Tito Magri is Professor of Philosophy at Sapienza University, Rome. He has done historical and theoretical research in political philosophy, in the philosophy of emotions, and in ethics and rational choice. He is currently working on Humes theory of imagination and on action theory.

David Owen teaches in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Arizona. He has edited several volumes on the history of early modern philosophy and is the author of Humes Reason (1999) as well as several articles on Locke and Hume.

Terence Penelhum is Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies at the University of Calgary, Canada, where he was formerly Head of the Department of Philosophy, Dean of Arts and Science, and Director of the Calgary Institute for the Humanities. In 1988 he was awarded the Canada Council Molson Prize in the Humanities. His books include Themes in Hume (2000) and God and Skepticism (1983).

Amlie Oksenberg Rorty is a Visiting Professor at Tufts University and a Lecturer at the Harvard Medical School. Author of Mind in Action (1991) and numerous articles on the history of moral psychology, she has edited Explaining Emotions (1976) and Philosophers on Education (1988) as well as volumes on Descartess Meditations and on Aristotles Ethics , his Rhetoric , and his Poetics . She is currently working on a book, On the Other Hand: The Ethics of Ambivalence .

Paul Russell is Professor in Philosophy at the University of British Columbia. His publications include Freedom and Moral Sentiment: Humes Way of Naturalizing Responsibility (1995) and The Riddle of Humes Treatise : Skepticism, Naturalism, and Irreligion (2008). He is also the editor of The Oxford Handbook of David Hume (forthcoming).

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