Hume and the Enlightenment

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.

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;

Craig Taylor, Stephen Buckle