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Elizabeth Radcliffe publishes A Companion to Hume

A Companion to Hume, edited by Elizabeth Radcliffe (Blackwell Publishing, 2008) 592 pp. is the newest addition to the Blackwell Companions to Philosophy series. It contains 29 essays by leading Hume scholars organized into six parts, with an introduction and a discussion of Hume's historical context. Blackwell is offering a discount to Hume Society members. For details go to http://www.humesociety.org/members/membersonly/blackwell-offer.html

Hume Society Members featured in New Essays on David Hume

New Essays on David Hume, ed. Emilio Mazza and Emanuele Ronchetti (Milan: FrancoAngeli), 480 pp. Î27.00, is a collection of contributions from eminent scholars. The volume is divided into four sections. The first opens with the question of naturalism and closes with scepticism. Moral philosophy is at the heart of the second section, which also deals with the relation between Hume and Hutcheson. The third spans from the History of England and how it was appropriated by de Maistre and Constant, to the American reception of Hume’s work and its connection with American deism. The last section is devoted to the presentation of recent Humeana: the new scholarly edition of the Treatise and two edited volumes on Hume and on his European reception.

Contributors: Annette C. Baier, Flavio Baroncelli, Martin Bell, Alix Cohen, Roger L. Emerson, David Fate Norton, Marina Frasca-Spada, James A. Harris, Dale .Jacquette, Peter Jones, Peter J. E. Kail, Catherine Kemp, Emilio Mazza, James Moore, Mary J. Norton, Charles Pigden, Emanuele Ronchetti, Ian Simpson Ross, Mark G. Spencer, M. A. Stewart, Luigi Turco, and John P. Wright. [8.15.07]

Saul Traiger publishes The Blackwell Guide to Hume's Treatise

The Blackwell Guide to Hume's Treatise, edited by Saul Traiger (Blackwell Publishing Limited, 2005) joins the ranks of Blackwell's Guides to Great Works. The Guide, intended to provide students with the scholarly resources needed to mine the Treatise for philosophical insights, contains fifteen original essays by leading Hume scholars. It is dividied into four parts. Part I: Formulation, Reception, and Scope of the Treatise, Part II: the Understanding, Part III: the Passions, Part IV: Morals.

Contributors: Lilli Alanen, Donald L.M. Baxter, Janet Broughton, Rachel Cohon, Don Garrett, Lorne Falkenstein, Mikael Karlsson, Jane McIntyre, William Edward Morris, Tony Pitson, Wade Robison, Abraham Sesshu Roth, Corliss Swain, Jackie Taylor, and John Wright

Saul Traiger is a former President as well as Executive Secretary-Treasurer of the Hume Society and is currently serving as a member of the Executive Committee. [8.13.07]

Eric Schliesser publishes article on Hume and Newton in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

The article, "Hume's Newtoniansim and Anti-Newtonianism," can be found online at http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/hume-newton/ [1.16.07]

Synthese publishes special issue on Hume's naturalism

The October 2006 issue of Synthese has just been released. It is a special issue on Hume's naturalism, with contributions by Don Garrett, Louis Loeb, Barry Stroud, Elizabeth Radcliffe, Gerald Postema, and Jane
McIntyre. [12.19.06]

Stanley Tweyman publishes new Hume Bibliography

In June 2006, Stanley Tweyman published his "Secondary Sources on the Philosophy of David Hume: A David Hume Bibliography in Two Volumes, 1741-2005", Caravan Books, Ann Arbor, USA. Further details regarding this publication are available at www.yorku.ca/stweyman [10.10.06]

Lorne Falkenstein wins prize for best article in Journal of the History of Philosophy

Lorne's article "Condillac's Paradox," which contains some discussion of Hume and Reid as well as Condillac, has been chosen as the best article in volume 43 of JHP. Lorne is the first of the recipients of this newly instituted best article prize of $1,500. [9.12.06]

Claudia Schmidt 's recent book, David Hume: Reason in History, is now available in paperback.

David Hume: Reason in History (Penn State University Press) was initially published in November 2003. The paperback was released this year. The work is described by Hume Society member David Norton as "A courageous and valuable attempt to see Hume whole—to see the unity and consistency in his broad-ranging work as a philosopher, political analyst, economist, historian, and critic of religion." A full description can be found on the Penn State University Press website at Claudia M. Schmidt David Hume. [8.05.05]

Mark G. Spencer publishes new book in April 2005

Mark Spencer's new book, Hume and Eighteenth-Century America: The Reception of Hume's Political Thought in America, 1740-1830 (University of Rochester Press) "presents a challenge to standard interpretations that assume Hume's thought had little influence in early America." [11.18.04]

Conference in honor of Elmer H. Duncan held at Baylor University.

The Baylor University Department of Philosophy hosted "Hume and His Critics: A Conference on the Scottish Enlightenment," on April 14-16, 2005 in honor of Hume Society member Elmer H. Duncan. Guest speakers were Karl Ameriks, University of Notre Dame, Gordon Graham, University of Aberdeen, and James Van Cleve, Brown University, University of Southern California. The conference website Hume and His Critics A Conference on the Scottish Enlightenment has a link to Bud Duncan's website on HUME AND HIS CRITICS[11.03.04]

Richard H. Dees publishes new book on toleration.

Professor Richard Dees of the University of Rochester recently published Trust and Toleration (London: Routledge,
2004), a book on the social and conceptual preconditions for toleration. [9.29.04]

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