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This is the first edited collection dedicated to demonstrating Hume's relevance to contemporary debates in epistemology. It features original essays by Hume scholars and epistemologists that address a wide range of important questions, including the following:
What does a Humean conception of knowledge look like?
How do Hume's understanding of belief and suspension of judgement bear on current debates about doxastic attitudes?
Is there a Humean way of uniting reasons in the epistemic and practical domains?
What is the proper role of reason at the foundations of ethics and epistemology from a Humean point of view?
What contribution might an examination of Humean scepticism make to understanding of current sceptical hypotheses?
Is Hume a hinge epistemologist?
Does naturalized epistemology trace back to Hume?
Does Hume have an ethics of belief?
What can Hume contribute to virtue and vice epistemology?
Some chapters try to bring historically accurate interpretations of Hume's ideas into contact with current issues, while others will take ideas merely suggested by Hume and demonstrate their philosophical usefulness. Together, they demonstrate Hume's enduring relevance for debates about knowledge, belief, inquiry and suspension, reasons, modal knowledge, scepticism, hinge epistemology, naturalized epistemology, the ethics of belief and moral epistemology, virtue and vice epistemology, and the epistemology of testimony.
Hume and Contemporary Epistemology will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working on Hume, epistemology, and the history of philosophy.
Contents
Introductory Note Scott Stapleford and Verena Wagner Part I: Knowledge 1. A Humean-Practicalist Conception of Knowing Stephen Hetherington 2. Why Hume's Notion of Demonstration Must Reduce to Probability: A Prelude to Quine Stefanie Rocknak Part II: Doxastic Attitudes 3. Hume on Pyrrhonian Scepticism and Suspension of Judgement Verena Wagner and Scott Stapleford Part III: Reason and Reasons 4. The Priority of Passive Reasoning Jonathan Cottrell 5. In Search of Hume's Anti-Rationalism Karl Schafer 6. Hume and the Unity of Reasons Eva Schmidt Part IV: Scepticism 7. Signs, Wonders and Hume: From Humean Scepticism about Miracles and Reason to Contemporary Sceptical Hypotheses and Back Again Kevin Meeker 8. Avoiding the Unexpected Circuit: Humean Improvements on Standard "Cartesian" Skepticism Yuval Avnur Part V: Hinge Epistemology 9. Humean Skepticism and Entitlement Santiago Echeverri 10. Hume and Wittgenstein on Naturalism and Scepticism Duncan Pritchard Part VI: Naturalized Epistemology 11. The Advancement of Naturalized Epistemology: Reflections on Hume, Quine and Anderson Angela M. Coventry Part VII: Modal Epistemology 12. Conceivability as the Standard of Metaphysical Possibility Miren Boehm Part VIII: Moral Epistemology 13. Hume, Deontological Epistemology, and an Ethics of Belief Qu Hsueh 14. Natural and Artificial Epistemic Virtues Sarah Wright 15. Humean Vice Epistemology: The Case of Prejudice Mark Collier Part IX: The Epistemology of Testimony 16. Hume and the Epistemology of Testimony Dan O'Brien
