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May 7, 2016hume

David Hume

Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them. (Commemorating the birth of the greatest moral psychologist of all). David HumeMoral psychologypassionReason

March 10, 2015adam smith, hume

Modern Greatness of Soul in Hume and Smith

Lovely essay by Andrew Corsa (H/T to Eric Schliesser) Adam SmithAndrew CorsaAristotleDavid HumemagnanimitySocratessympathy and benevolence

October 25, 2013adam smith, hume

The Avuncular David Hume

Hume is on my mind especially in regard to my current work on Adam Smith. To this end, I’ve been re-watching Bryan Magee’s series The Great Philosophers from ’87. I’ve especially enjoyed the Hume discussion with John Passmore. Magee is an expositor second to none despite the fact that his expert guests are more intimate with-…

June 4, 2012Andrew Sneddon, Embedded, enaction, enactivism, ethics, extended mind, externalism, hume, kant, moral philosophy, moral psychology

Like-Minded: Externalism and Moral Psychology

A recent book in the EM genre. CognitionCognitive neuroscienceCognitive scienceExtended MindMoral psychologyMoral responsibilitymoralityphilosophical psychologyPhilosophy of mindPsychologySocial Sciences

May 4, 2012causal theory, hume

Locating Conscious Properties in a Material World

Two reviews of Gerald Vision’s Re-Emergence: Locating Conscious Properties in a Material World By Philip Goff By Kevin Morris CognitionCognitive neuroscienceCognitive scienceColin McGinncomplexityDavid HumeEmergenceEmergentismMental propertyPhilosophy of mindPhilosophy of sciencePhysical propertyPhysicalismProperty dualismqualiaSamuel Alexander

April 26, 2012hume, philosophy, wittgenstein

Hume and Wittgenstein

Born on this day Hume [O.S.] The most important philosopher ever to write in English, David Hume (1711-1776) — the last of the great triumvirate of “British empiricists” — was also well-known in his own time as an historian and essayist. A master stylist in any genre, Hume’s major philosophical works — A Treatise of Human…

December 12, 2011cognitive science, hume, kant, philosophical psychology, postmodern

Blackburn on Hume

This week’s guest on the NYT Opinionator humeSIMON BLACKBURN

October 14, 2011adam smith, empathy, hume, Jesse Prinz, moral philosophy, moral psychology, sympathy

Empathy: Philosophical and Psychological Perspectives

Check out this volume about to be released. Here is Jesse Prinz’ contribution “Is Empathy Necessary for Morality?“

August 17, 2011A Treatise of Human Nature, Elizabeth Radcliffe, human nature, hume, moral philosophy, rationality, reason, The Philosopher's Magazine

Being Hume Man

Here’s an article by Elizabeth Radcliffe from TPM on Hume: He makes the astounding declaration that “Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.”

June 14, 2011andrew irvine, australian philosophy, australian realism, david stove, Dennett, hayek, hume, ideology, induction, jim franklin, political correctness, political philosophy, realism, roger kimball, roger scruton, scott campbell, the plato cult

David Stove

I know that I may well cop a lot of flack disclosing that I’m a fan of David Stove. One colleague called Stove the worst curmudgeon he’d ever come across, a writer that had the ability to rub many constituencies up the wrong way. Be that as it may, I find Stove a great writer…