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Hume on Motivation and Virtue

Palgrave Macmillan

Part of the book series: Philosophers in Depth (PID)

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
  2. Introduction

    • Charles R. Pigden
    Pages 1-29
  3. If Not Non-Cognitivism, Then What?

    • Charles R. Pigden
    Pages 80-104
  4. The Motivation Argument for Non-Cognitivism

    • Michael Smith
    Pages 105-120
  5. Experiences of Value

    • Graham Oddie
    Pages 121-141
  6. Humean Sources of Normativity

    • Herlinde Pauer-Studer
    Pages 186-207
  7. Two Kinds of Normativity: Korsgaard v. Hume

    • Luke Russell
    Pages 208-225
  8. What Kind of Virtue Theorist is Hume?

    • Christine Swanton
    Pages 226-248
  9. Reply to Baier

    • Christine Swanton
    Pages 259-263
  10. Hume on Justice

    • Rosalind Hursthouse
    Pages 264-276
  11. Back Matter

    Pages 267-303

About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Otago, New Zealand

    Charles R. Pigden

About the editor

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

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