Hume on Motivation and Virtue

This collection is devoted to questions in meta-ethics and moral psychology arising from the work of David Hume. The collection focuses on questions arising from Hume's views on reason, motivation and virtue including new essays from notable Hume scholars.

Autorentext
ANNETTE C. BAIER lives in her native New Zealand. Before retiring she taught at the universities of Aberdeen, Auckland, Sydney and Pittsburgh STEPHEN FINLAY is Assistant Professor, University of Southern California, USA KENT HURTIG teaches Philosophy at University of Stirling, UK ROSALIND HURSTHOUSE is a lecturer at the Open University, UK RICHARD JOYCE is a Research Fellow in the Philosophy Department, University of Sydney, Australia NORVA Y. S. LO is a lecturer in the Department of Philosophy, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia GRAHAM ODDIE is currently Professor of Philosophy (and Associate Dean of Humanities) at the University of Colorado at Boulder, USA HERLINDE PAUER-STUDER is Associate Professor for Philosophy at the University of Vienna, Austria LUKE RUSSELL is Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy, University of Sydney, Australia CONSTANTINE SANDIS is a lecturer in Philosophy at Oxford Brookes University and NYU in London, UK MICHAEL SMITH is Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University, USA CHRISTINE SWANTON is a professor in the Philosophy Department, University of Auckland, New Zealand

Inhalt
Preface and Acknowledgements Series Editor's Preface Notes on the Contributors A Note on References to Hume and Locke Introduction; C.Pigden Expressivism, Motivation Internalism, and Hume; R.Joyce Is Hume Inconsistent? - Motivation and Morals; N.Lo If Not Non-Cognitivism, Then What?; C.Pigden The Motivation Argument for Non-cognitivism; M.Smith Experiences of Value; G.Oddie Hume and the Debate on Motivating Reasons; C.Sandis Against all Reason: Scepticism about the Instrumental Norm; S.Finlay Why Internalists about Reasons Should be Humeans about Motivation; K.Hurtig Humean Sources of Normativity; H.Pauer-Studer Two Kinds of Normativity; L.Russell What Kind of Virtue-Theorist is Hume?; C.Swanton Kinds of Virtue Theorist: A Response to Christine Swanton; A.Baier Reply to Annette Baier; C.Swanton Hume on Justice; R.Hursthouse Consolidated Bibliography Index