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Volume 33, Issue 2, November 2007

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Aaron Zimmerman Hume’s Reasons
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Hume’s claim that reason is a slave to the passions involves both a causal thesis: reason cannot cause action without the aid of the passions, and an evaluative thesis: it is improper to evaluate our actions in terms of their reasonableness. On my reading, Hume motivates his causal thesis by arguing that accurate representation is the function of reason, where a faculty of this kind cannot produce action on its own. (The interpretation helps vindicate Hume of the common charge that he “begs the question” against his opponents.) But Hume’s causal thesis does not entail his evaluative thesis, and his commitment to the latter is incredibly thin. According to Hume’spositive theory, our evaluative judgments originate in reason integrated with sympathy or humanity. And, I argue, the resulting view depicts us as having substantive, non-instrumental reasons to fulfill our obligations to both prudence and morality.
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Don Garrett The First Motive to Justice: Hume’s Circle Argument Squared
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Peter S. Fosl On the 2007 Clarendon Critical Edition of David Hume’s A Treatise of Human Nature
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John Bricke The Clarendon Edition of Hume’s Treatise: Book 1
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Jacqueline Taylor Hume and the Nortons on the Passions and Morality in Hume’s Treatise
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David Fate Norton, Mary J. Norton A Response to Our Colleagues
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book reviews
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James A. Harris David Hume’s Political Theory: Law, Commerce, and the Constitution of Government
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Catherine Kemp Thomas Reid’s Theory of Perception
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Scott Yenor Hume’s Social Philosophy: Human Nature and Commercial Sociability in A Treatise of Human Nature
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Angela Michelle Coventry New Essays on David Hume
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Dale Jacquette Hume’s Difficulty: Time and Identity in the Treatise
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Neil Mcarthur David Hume, Moral and Political Theorist
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bibliography
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James Fieser The Hume Literature, 2006 and 2007
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Index to Volume 33
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Hume Studies Referees, 2006–2007
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