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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. 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.

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Author:   Craig Taylor ,  Stephen Buckle
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.362kg
ISBN:  

9781138664401

ISBN 10:   1138664405
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   21 January 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction: Hume and His Intellectual Legacy, Craig Taylor, Stephen Buckle; Chapter 1 Hume and the Enlightenment, Stephen Buckle; Chapter 2 Will the Real Enlightenment Historian Please Stand Up? Catharine Macaulay Versus David Hume, Karen Green; Chapter 3 Philosophy, Historiography and the Enlightenment: A Response to Green, Stephen Buckle; Chapter 4 Hume’s Enlightenment Aesthetics and Philosophy of Mathematics, Dale Jacquette; Chapter 5 Part 9 of Hume’s Dialogues and ‘the Accurate Philosophical Turn of Cleanthes’, Stanley Tweyman; Chapter 6 ‘Strange Lengths’: Hume and Satire in the Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, Robert Phiddian; Chapter 7 A Modern Malignant Demon? Hume’s Scepticism with Regard to Reason (Partly) Vindicated, George Couvalis; Chapter 8 Hume on Sympathy and Cruelty, Craig Taylor; Chapter 9 Hume’s Natural History of Justice, Mark Collier; Chapter 10 Hume and Rawls on the Stability of a Society’s System of Justice, Ian Hunt; Chapter 11 Can Hume’s Impressions of Reflection Represent?, Anna Stoklosa; Chapter 12 Mechanism and Thought Formation: Hume’S Emancipatory Scepticism, Anik Waldow;

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