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Fall 2011
Leibniz scholars have difficulty reconciling Leibniz’s metaphysical account of causation with his theological account, since the former claims that creatures are the source of their own actions, and the latter seemingly undercuts this claim by ascribing to God all that there is of positive...
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Spring 2022
Hume's epistemology in A Treatise of Human Nature has generated a great deal of research. In particular, in the section titled "Conclusion of this Book" at the end of Book One of the Treatise, it is ambiguous exactly what Hume's epistemological position is. While Hume arrives at a radical...
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Fall 2012
Objectors to Hume’s sentimentalist moral theory charge that a system of morality grounded in sentiments cannot provide us with a set of standards that are stable across times and places. Hume addresses this worry in his appeal to what he calls the General Point of View, accounting for how we...
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The Historical Convergence of Happiness and Virtue: A Reading of Hume's Theory of Moral Motivation
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That Hume offers an account of motivation and action is widely accepted. But whether he offers a distinct theory of moral motivation is less obvious. Contemporary scholarship has attempted to reconstruct this theory, but not always fruitfully, given its focus on examining the moral psychology of...