Paul Russell

Recasting Hume and Early Modern Philosophy

Selected Essays

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Produktbeschreibung

The philosopher Paul Russell is well known for his scholarship on Hume and free will. This volume collects Russell's most important essays on Hume, with some articles addressing early modern philosophy more generally. The volume is organized thematically into five sections: metaphysics, free will, ethics, religion, and general interpretations of Hume's philosophy. In a substantive introduction, Russell outlines how his insights overlap and connect to various topics in contemporary philosophy. Recasting Hume and Early Modern Philosophy presents the reader with Russell's substantial and interconnected observations and insights on the matters and figures of the greatest importance in early modern philosophy.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sydney University Press
• Seitenzahl: 520
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Juli 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 238mm x 163mm x 37mm
• Gewicht: 894g
• ISBN-13: 9780197577264
• ISBN-10: 0197577261
• Artikelnr.: 61854913

Autorenporträt

Paul Russell is a Professor of Philosophy at Lund University (Sweden), where he also serves as Director of the Lund Gothenburg Responsibility Project (LGRP).

Inhaltsangabe

* Contents
* Introduction
* Acknowledgments
* Sources
* I. Metaphysics and Epistemology
* 1. Hume's "Two Definitions" of Cause and the Ontology of "Double
Existence"
* Appendix 2020: Was Hume a "Causal Realist"?
* 2. Probability, Induction and a Future State: Hume contra Butler
* 3. The Material World and Natural Religion in Hume's Treatise
* 4. Causation, Cosmology and the Limits of Philosophy
* II. Free Will and Moral Luck
* 5. Hobbes, Bramhall and the Free Will Problem
* 6. "Hume's Lengthy Digression": Free Will in the Treatise
* 7. Hume on Responsibility and Punishment
* 8. Smith on Moral Sentiment and Moral Luck
* III. Ethics, Virtue and Optimism
* 9. Hume's Anatomy of Virtue
* 10. Hume's Optimism and Williams' Pessimism
* IV. Skepticism, Religion and Atheism
* 11. Hume's Lucretian Mission: Is it Self-Refuting?
* 12. Hume's Skepticism and the Problem of Atheism
* Appendix: "Abduction and Hume's Atheism"
* 13. "True Religion" and Hume's Practical Atheism
* 14. Irreligion and the Impartial Spectator in Smith's Moral System
* V. Irreligion and the Unity of Hume's Thought
* 15. Hume's Legacy and the Idea of British Empiricism
* 16. Hume's Philosophy of Irreligion and the Myth of British
Empiricism
* Other writings by Paul Russell on Hume and Early Modern Philosophy
* Index