...Matthew Wickman Thomas packs a voluminous intellectual history into just a few lines. Spinoza’s Ethics seeks to align love of God with the rational order of the universe ¹⁹ —a union Hume dissolves by calling into question not only God (the famous charge of Hume’s atheism...

... fact—is up for the explanatory task. Though various theists endorse the externality assumption for different reasons, endorsing the externality assumption amounts to rejecting the Hume-Edwards Principle (HEP), roughly, that explaining the parts of a collection is sufficient for explaining the whole...

..., Standard Journals Publication Model ( https://dbpia.nl.go.kr/journals/pages/open_access/funder_policies/chorus/standard_publication_model ) Abstract In the ‘Appendix’ to the Treatise, Hume claims that he has discovered a ‘very considerable’ mistake in his earlier discussion of the self. Hume's...

... Am Coll Cardiol 2008 ; 51 : 1120 – 1122 5 Hume D . An Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding, 1748 . Oxford, UK : Oxford University Press , 2007 6 Bradford-Hill A . The environment and disease: association or causation . Proc Royal Soc...

...Chris Louttit Fergus Hume’s The Mystery of a Hansom Cab (1886) has never had an entirely secure place in the Australian canon. A huge publishing sensation on its first appearance, Hume’s novel was excluded, according to Paul Eggert, from ‘the consensus about Australian classics...

... the agreement of ideal critics. Taking into account the suitability of critics to the works they judge as well as some complications of the test of time increases support for a qualified form of aesthetic realism. Aesthetics Realism Disagreement Hume Ideal Critics Aesthetic disputes are commonplace...

... uses. We use the same idea to vindicate Locke’s, Descartes’ and Hume’s handling of ‘nothing’, and we show how Heidegger’s ‘das Nichts nichtet’ comes out as logically true. Ayer Bennett Carnap ‘das Nichts nichtet’ Descartes Empty term ‘ex nihilo nihil fit’ Heidegger Hume Inwood Kuratowski...

...Alfredo Morabia The rules set a high threshold for causal validity, compatible with Hume's skepticism about the potential success of our process of causal inference. Indeed, they work for aspirin and pain relief, but not for cigarette smoking and lung cancer. For the latter, we cannot pass...

... seminal piece on the methodology of economics: Positive economics is in principle independent of any particular ethical position or normative judgments. ( Friedman, 1966 , p. 4) Abstract In his Treatise of Human Nature, Hume argues that reason does not motivate action but rather directs our...

...Ryan E. Lawrence; Farr A. Curlin © The Author 2011. Published by Oxford University Press, on behalf of the Journal of Medicine and Philosophy Inc. All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: [email protected] 2011 Abstract Hume's is/ought distinction has long limited the role...

...Dale Jacquette References [1] Anscombe GEM Sosa E Causality and determination Causation and Conditionals 1975 Oxford University Press 63 81 [2] Beauchamp T Rosenberg A Hume and the Problem of Causation 1981 Oxford University Press [3] Bennett J...

...Margaret Watkins Hume agrees. He concludes the Enquiry concerning the Principles of Morals with a consideration of “our interested obligation” to virtue, asking “whether every man, who has any regard to his own happiness and welfare, will not best find his account in the practice...

...Takeshi Nakano 19 1 2004 3 5 2005 © The Author 2005. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Cambridge Political Economy Society. All rights reserved. 2006 Abstract This essay examines David Hume's economic methodology. The author characterises Hume's understanding of human...

... is a fundamental educational ideal. Cuypers’ analysis raises deep issues about the motivational character of reasons; I briefly address this matter as well. Kant Hume instrumental reasoning means-ends reasoning autonomy I am grateful to Stefaan Cuypers for his careful, detailed and insightful explication...

... by Thomas Kuhn. An illustration of this alternative approach is provided using the example of the ‘wage relation’. Convention Hume Marx Game theory JEL classifications: B10, B14, B41, C71 It is commonplace for social scientists to claim that social institutions and practices are conventions...

... Historical reference: Hume and critical realism Sheila C. Dow* The purpose of this paper is to make the case for discussing developments in the history of thought as having the potential to inform modern discussion. The case is made...

... of self-interested motivations. Drawing from and developing the arguments of David Hume, this essay argues that self-interested motives need not work against an inclusive system, and can strengthen the case for covering children in particular. Anyone who hopes to benefit from the inter-generational...

.... This argument has limitations; nonetheless, it can help identify systematic biases against children in federal- or state-supported health care programs and gain children access to better basic health and dental care. children dental care ethics health care Hume justice resource allocation Journal...

...Larry R. Churchill Correspondence: Larry R. Churchill, Ph.D., Social Medicine, CB #7240, The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7240, USA. © Swets & Zeitlinger 1999 Abstract This essay argues that Hume's theory of justice can be useful in framing a more persuasive case...

..., but narrower than the WHO's. Christopher Boorse disease fact–value gap health David Hume moral sentiments Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 0360-5310/99/2404-0365$15.00 1999, Vol. 24, No. 4, pp. 365–375 © Swets & Zeitlinger Coming Home to Hume...