1st Edition
The New Hume Debate Revised Edition
Notes on contributors; Preface; Preface to the New Edition; Acknowledgements and permissions; Reference notes 1. Debating the New Hume Kenneth Richman 2. ‘Gilding or staining’ the world with ‘sentiments’ and ‘phantasms’ Barry Stroud 3. David Hume: Objects and power Galen Strawson 4. The New Hume Kenneth P. Winkler 5. Hume’s causal realism: recovering a traditional interpretation John P. Wright 6. Hume and thick connexions Simon Blackburn 7. Hume on causality: projectivist and realist? Edward Craig 8. Sceptical doubts concerning Hume’s causal realism Martin Bell 9. Relative ideas re-viewed Daniel Flage 10. From cognitive science to a post-Cartesian text; what did Hume really say? Anne Jaap Jacobson 11. The new antagonists of ‘the New Hume’: on the relevance of Goodman and Wittgenstein to the New Hume debate Rupert Read 12. "Our Aim in All Our Studies" Janet Broughton 13. Against the New Hume Peter Millican 14. How to understand Hume’s realism P.J.E. Kail; Bibliography; Citation index; Name index; Subject index
Biography
Rupert Read, Kenneth Richman
Reviews for the hardback:
'[My] remarks only scratch the surface of this interesting debate and the valuable contributions that are included in this volume. The editors have done an excellent job of choosing and presenting the most important papers on this subject' - Paul Russell, Journal of the History of Philosophy
'The New Hume Debate collects the latest version of the views of both those who got this argument going …and those who have found the New Hume hardest to swallow.' - Times Literary Supplement
'…some excellent contributions that genuinely advance the debate.' - British Journal for the History of Philosophy
‘Rupert Read and Kenneth A. Richman have assembled some outstanding articles…focusing on the interpretation of Hume as a sceptical realist.’ - Studies on Eighteenth Century Scotland
