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Vital matters : eighteenth-century views of conception, life, and death / edited by Helen Deutsch and Mary Terrall.
Published 2012Table of Contents: “…The Divine Touch, or Touching Divines: John Hunter, David Hume, and the Bishop of Durham's Rectum --…”
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Vital matters : eighteenth-century views of conception, life, and death / edited by Helen Deutsch and Mary Terrall.
Published 2012Table of Contents: “…The Divine Touch, or Touching Divines: John Hunter, David Hume, and the Bishop of Durham's Rectum --…”
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Uncommon sense : the strangest ideas from the smartest philosophers / Andrew Pessin.
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Liberty, property and popular politics : England and Scotland, 1688-1815 : essays in honour of H.T. Dickinson / edited by Gordon Pentland and Michael T. Davis.
Published 2016Table of Contents: “…Was there a law of sedition in Scotland? Baron David Hume's analysis of the Scottish sedition trials of 1794 /…”
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The century of taste : the philosophical odyssey of taste in the eighteenth century / George Dickie.
Published 1996Table of Contents: “…Beauties and blemishes : David Hume:…”
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Great thinkers A-Z / edited by Julian Baggini and Jeremy Stangroom.
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The Routledge companion to epistemology / edited by Sven Bernecker and Duncan Pritchard.
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Johann Georg Sulzer : Aufklärung im Umbruch / herausgegeben von Elisabeth Décultot, Philipp Kampa und Jana Kittelmann ; unter Mitwerkung von Aleksandra Ambrozy.
Published 2018Table of Contents: “…Über Johann Georg Sulzers Auseinandersetzung mit David Hume (1755) /…”
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1650-1850 : ideas, aesthetics, and inquiries in the Early Modern era / edited by Kevin L. Cope.
Published 2020Table of Contents: “…., Further Letters of David Hume --…”
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The British moralists on human nature and the birth of secular ethics / Michael B. Gill.
Published 2006Table of Contents: “…Whichcote and Cudworth -- Shaftesbury -- Hutcheson -- David Hume.…”
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Hume : a guide for the perplexed / Angela Coventry.
Published 2007Table of Contents: “…Life and works of David Hume -- Intellectual heritage -- Approach to philosophy -- Operations of the mind -- Space and time -- Cause and effect -- Necessary connection -- Scepticism.…”
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Religion and the Science of Human Nature in the Scottish Enlightenment by R.J.W. Mills.
Published 2023Table of Contents: “…Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 Religion and the Start of the Science of Human Nature: Campbell, Turnbull and Hume -- Chapter 3 David Hume and the Emptiness of Natural Religion -- Chapter 4 Adam Smith on Religious Psychology in Society -- Chapter 5 Henry Home, Lord Kames on Mechanistic Human Nature -- Chapter 6 David Hume’s ‘Natural History of Religion’ (1757) -- Chapter 7 William Robertson on Revelation and the Limits of Progress -- chapter 8 Adam Ferguson, Stoicism and the Individual Alone -- Chapter 9 George Campbell on Miracles and the Weakness of Hume’s ‘Science of Man’ -- Chapter 10 John Gregory on Human Nature, Happiness and Religious Devotion -- Chapter 11 James Dunbar on Climate and Civil Religion. -- Chapter 12 James Burnett, Lord Monboddo on Egyptian Daemons -- 13. …”
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The Continuum companion to Hume / general editors, Alan Bailey, Dan O'Brien.
Published 2012Table of Contents: “…Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS; ABBREVIATIONS FOR WORKS WRITTEN BY HUME; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; DAVID HUME -- A TIMELINE; INTRODUCTION; 1 HUME'S LIFE, INTELLECTUAL CONTEXT AND RECEPTION; 2 HUME'S EMPIRICIST INNER EPISTEMOLOGY: A REASSESSMENT OF THE COPY PRINCIPLE; 3 HUME'S 'SCEPTICISM' ABOUT INDUCTION; 4 THE PSYCHOLOGY AND EPISTEMOLOGY OF HUME'S ACCOUNT OF PROBABLE REASONING; 5 CAUSATION AND NECESSARY CONNECTION; 6 HUME ON SCEPTICISM AND THE MORAL SCIENCES; 7 THE SELF AND PERSONAL IDENTITY; 8 'ALL MY HOPES VANISH': HUME ON THE MIND.…”
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Victorian empiricism : self, knowledge, and reality in Ruskin, Bain, Lewes, Spencer, and George Eliot / Peter Garratt.
Published 2010Table of Contents: “…The ghost of David Hume : backgrounds to mid-Victorian empiricism -- Ruskin's Modern painters and the visual language of reality -- The eye (in)exact : G.H. …”
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Eighteenth-century fiction and the reinvention of wonder / Sarah Tindal Kareem.
Published 2014Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Wonder and the rise of fiction -- Wonder in the age of enlightenment -- Rethinking the real with Robinson Crusoe and David Hume -- Suspending the reader in Tom Jones and The Castle of Otranto -- "Marvelous tales of wonders performed, or rather, not performed" in Baron Munchausen's Narrative -- "A little voyage of discovery?"…”
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Encyclopedia of ethics / Lawrence C. Becker and Charlotte B. Becker, editors.
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Dissenting histories : religious division and the politics of memory in eighteenth-century England / John Seed.
Published 2008Table of Contents: “…Introduction: remembering the present -- The debt of memory: Edmund Calamy and the Dissenters in Restoration England -- Protestant liberty: Daniel Neal and The history of the Puritans -- Enthusiasts, Puritans and politics: David Hume's History of England -- Englightenment, Republicanism and dissent: William Harris's Histories -- Dissenting histories in the 1770s and 1780s -- 'The fiction of ancestry': Burke, history and the Dissenters -- Conclusion.…”
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The secret history of emotion : from Aristotle's Rhetoric to modern brain science / Daniel M. Gross.
Published 2006Table of Contents: “…Acknowledgments; Introduction: A New Rhetoric of Passions; 1 Early Modern Emotion and the Economy of Scarcity; 2 Apathy in the Shadow Economy of Emotion; 3 Virtues of Passivity in the English Civil War; 4 The Politics of Pride in David Hume and David Simple; 5 Thinking and Feeling without a Brain: William Perfect and Adam Smith's Compassion; Index.…”
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The main philosophical writings and the novel Allwill / Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi ; translated from the German, with an introductory study, notes and bibliography by George di Giov...
Published 1994Table of Contents: “…Contents -- Preface -- INTRODUCTION: THE UNFINISHED PHILOSOPHY OF FRIEDRICH HEINRICH JACOBI -- I: Jacobi and His Spiritual Landscape: An Essay in Synthesis -- II: Philosophical Arguments: An Essay in Analysis -- III: Literary Witnesses: An Essay in Interpretation -- IV: The Last Word: Jacobi on Jacobi -- Note on the Texts -- TEXTS -- Concerning the Doctrine of Spinoza in Letters to Herr Moses Mendelssohn (1785) -- David Hume on Faith, or Idealism and Realism, A Dialogue (1787) -- Concerning the Doctrine of Spinoza in Letters to Moses Mendelssohn (1789), excerpts…”
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Philosophical Skepticism.
Published 2008Table of Contents: “…27 Jean-Baptiste Moliere, from The Forced Marriage28 David Hume, from A Treatise of Human Nature; 29 Thomas Reid, from Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man; 30 Immanuel Kant, from Prolegomena and Critique of Pure Reason; 31 Martin Heidegger, from Being and Time; 32 W.V. …”
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