Naturalisms in Spinoza, Hume, and Shepherd

List of Contributors

Acknowledgements

Master Bibliography of Primary Texts

Introduction Jonathan Cottrell and Aaron Garrett

Part 1: Varieties of Naturalism

1. Spinoza, Hume, and Shepherd: Three Routes to Naturalism Don Garrett

2. Two Modern Sect of Naturalists Aaron Garrett

3. The Principle of Insufficient Reason and Naturalism in Hume and Spinoza Karl Schafer

4. The Question of Mary Shepherd’s Naturalism Antonia LoLordo

Part 2: Methodological Naturalisms

5. Spinoza and Hume on Pleasure and Desire: Two Models of Motivational Naturalism Justin Steinberg

6. Hume’s Painted Anatomy: On The Difficulties of Developing a Naturalistic Science of Human Nature Lorraine Besser

7. Naturalism Overcoming Scepticism: The Title Principle in the Treatise and First Enquiry Hsueh Qu

8. Shepherd’s Non-Sceptical Solution of Hume’s Doubts Jonathan Cottrell

Part 3: Ontological Naturalisms

9. Seven Challenges for Garrett’s Interpretation of Mind-Body Identity in Spinoza John Morrison

10. Hume and Shepherd on Necessary Truths Maité Cruz

11. Dissolving the Mind-Body Problem with Chemical Substances: Shepherd’s Naturalistic Interactionism Ariel Melamedoff

Part 4: Anthropological Naturalisms

12. Spinoza and Hume on Human and Animal Reason Yitzhak Y. Melamed

13. The Case Against Cartesian Rationalism in Hume and Reid Louis E. Loeb

Part 5: Miracles and the Supernatural

14. Miracles and Reason: Converging Exclusions in Spinoza and Hume Angela Coventry

15. Mary Shepherd’s Critique of Hume on Miracles Peter Millican

Part 6: Naturalistic Views on Specific Topics

16. Humeanism in Spinoza and in Hume: Some Pathologies Michael Della Rocca

17. Desire in Spinoza and Hume Elizabeth S. Radcliffe

18. The Role of Gossip in Hume’s Naturalistic Theory of the Artificial Virtues Rachel Cohon

19. Shepherd and the Representation of Causal Relations David Landy.

Index

Biography

Jonathan Cottrell is Associate Professor in Philosophy at the University of Toronto Scarborough. He has published articles in The Philosophical Review, the Journal of the History of Philosophy, Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy, and other venues. He is currently researching and writing a monograph on David Hume’s philosophy of mind and psychology.

Aaron Garrett is Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Boston University, USA. He is the author of several books including Meaning in Spinoza's Method and Berkeley's Three Dialogues, and editor of The Routledge Companion to Eighteenth Century Philosophy (2017) and with James Harris Scottish Philosophy in the Eighteenth Century (2015). He is co-editor, with Pauliina Remes, of the book series Rewriting the History of Philosophy (Routledge).