Hume StudiesPub Date : 2022-10-28DOI: 10.1353/hms.2022.0015
Gabriel Watts
{"title":"A Peculiar Mix: On the Place of Curiosity within Hume’s Treatise","authors":"Gabriel Watts","doi":"10.1353/hms.2022.0015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hms.2022.0015","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In this paper I argue that Hume’s decision to include an account of curiosity within his theory of the passions is what gives Book 2 of the Treatise its distinctive shape, in which an account of what Hume calls “indirect” passions precedes an account of the nature of the will, which is itself followed by an account of the “direct” passions, then curiosity. On my reading, Hume concludes his theory of the passions with an account of curiosity because this is where it ought to go, given how Hume understands the love of truth to arise in human nature. Not only this, but I contend that Hume’s need to account for the nature of curiosity within his theory of the passions can explain his decision to open Book 2 with a discussion of the indirect passions, rather than the direct passions.","PeriodicalId":29761,"journal":{"name":"Hume Studies","volume":"47 1","pages":"261 - 283"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44954135","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Hume StudiesPub Date : 2022-10-28DOI: 10.1353/hms.2022.0014
Tito Magri
{"title":"Hume’s Third Thoughts on Personal Identity","authors":"Tito Magri","doi":"10.1353/hms.2022.0014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hms.2022.0014","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:I suggest that Hume’s recantation, in the Appendix to the Treatise, of his account of the idea of personal identity in section 1.4.6 hinges on the contrast between the first-personal cognitive roles of that idea and its imagination-based explanation. In stark, if implicit, contrast with Locke, Hume’s account divorces personal identity from consciousness, considering oneself as oneself. But, later in the Appendix, Hume realized, if imperfectly, that something was missing from the idea of self he had constructed. I suggest that what is missing is the intimate consciousness of ourselves that idea should allow us to achieve. While Hume despaired to find a solution to this problem, a change in the background of his earlier theory—a change he had available and which is perhaps alluded to in a letter to Kames—could have made his original account consistent with the first-personal features of the idea of self.","PeriodicalId":29761,"journal":{"name":"Hume Studies","volume":"47 1","pages":"231 - 260"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47752793","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Hume StudiesPub Date : 2022-10-28DOI: 10.1353/hms.2022.0012
Aaron Alexander Zubia
{"title":"Hume’s Transformation of Academic Skepticism","authors":"Aaron Alexander Zubia","doi":"10.1353/hms.2022.0012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hms.2022.0012","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Hume described himself as an Academic skeptic and aligned himself with the skepticism of Socrates and Cicero. I argue, though, that Hume transformed the meaning of Academic skepticism by associating it with an experimental rather than dialectical method. In this essay, I distinguish between those aspects of Cicero’s Academic skepticism that Hume adopted and those he discarded in his presentation of mitigated skepticism in the first Enquiry. I then consider the implications of Hume’s transformation of Academic skepticism for Hume’s polite eloquence in the Essays, particularly the essays on happiness, which are often described as possessing “Ciceronian” and “dialectical” elements. Hume’s transformation of Academic skepticism is essential to helping readers understand not only Hume’s alleged neo-Hellenism, but also the aims of his philosophical project.","PeriodicalId":29761,"journal":{"name":"Hume Studies","volume":"47 1","pages":"171 - 201"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45628238","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Hume StudiesPub Date : 2022-10-28DOI: 10.1353/hms.2022.0017
Lorraine L. Besser
{"title":"The Great Guide: What David Hume can teach us about Being Human and Living Well by Julian Baggini (review)","authors":"Lorraine L. Besser","doi":"10.1353/hms.2022.0017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hms.2022.0017","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29761,"journal":{"name":"Hume Studies","volume":"47 1","pages":"311 - 314"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42247493","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Hume StudiesPub Date : 2022-10-28DOI: 10.1353/hms.2022.0019
Peter S. Fosl
{"title":"Sextus, Montaigne, Hume: Pyrrhonizers by Brian Ribeiro (review)","authors":"Peter S. Fosl","doi":"10.1353/hms.2022.0019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hms.2022.0019","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29761,"journal":{"name":"Hume Studies","volume":"47 1","pages":"319 - 322"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47936511","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Hume StudiesPub Date : 2022-06-08DOI: 10.1353/hms.2022.0004
G. Clay
{"title":"Hume's Incredible Demonstrations","authors":"G. Clay","doi":"10.1353/hms.2022.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hms.2022.0004","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Commentators have rightly focused on the reasons why Hume maintains that the conclusions of skeptical arguments cannot be believed, as well as on the role these arguments play in Hume's justification of his account of the mind. Nevertheless, Hume's interpreters should take more seriously the question of whether Hume holds that these arguments are demonstrations. Only if the arguments are demonstrations do they have the requisite status to prove Hume's point—and justify his confidence—about the nature of the mind's belief-generating faculties. In this paper, I treat Hume's argument against the primary/secondary quality distinction as my case study, and I argue that it is intended by Hume to be a demonstration of a special variety.","PeriodicalId":29761,"journal":{"name":"Hume Studies","volume":"47 1","pages":"55 - 77"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47623044","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Hume StudiesPub Date : 2022-06-08DOI: 10.1353/hms.2022.0008
Marc Hanvelt
{"title":"The Persistence of Party: Ideas of Harmonious Discord in Eighteenth-Century Britain by Max Skjönsberg (review)","authors":"Marc Hanvelt","doi":"10.1353/hms.2022.0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hms.2022.0008","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29761,"journal":{"name":"Hume Studies","volume":"47 1","pages":"157 - 160"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42266939","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Hume StudiesPub Date : 2022-06-08DOI: 10.1353/hms.2022.0000
J. Wright
{"title":"In Memoriam: Michael Alexander Stewart (1937–2021)","authors":"J. Wright","doi":"10.1353/hms.2022.0000","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hms.2022.0000","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29761,"journal":{"name":"Hume Studies","volume":"47 1","pages":"5 - 6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44343754","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}