Some Useful Recent Work on Hume's Moral Theory

Ardal, Páll S.“Some Implications of the Virtue of Reasonableness in Hume’s Treatise, in Hume: a Re-evaluation.

Ardal, Páll S.Passion and Value in Hume’s Treatise.(Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1966).

Ardal, Páll S., “Another Look at Hume’s Account of Moral Evaluation,” Journal of the History of Philosophy 15, Oct 77, pp. 405-421.

Baier, Annette, ‘Artificial Virtues and the Equally Sensible Non-Knaves: A Response to Gauthier’, Hume Studies, 18 (1992), pp. 429-39.

Baier, Annette, “Hume’s Account of Social Artifice: Its Origin and Originality,” Ethics 98 (July 1988), pp. 757-778.

Baier, Annette.“Master Passions.”In Explaining Emotions.Edited by A.O. Rorty.(Berkeley: University of California Press, 1980).

Baier, Annette.A Progress of Sentiments: Reflections on Hume’s Treatise.(Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1991).

Baron, Marcia, “Hume’s Noble Lie: An Account of His Artificial Virtues,” Canadian Journal of Philosophy 12 (1982), pp. 539-555.

Blackburn, Simon, ‘Hume on the Mezzanine Level’, Hume Studies, 19 (1993), 273-88.

Box, M.A.The Suasive Art of David Hume.(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1990).

Bricke, John, ‘Hume, Motivation and Morality’, Hume Studies, 14 (Apr. 1988), pp. 1-24.

Brown, Charlotte, “Is Hume an Internalist?”, Journal of the History of Philosophy 26, no. 1 (Jan. 1988), pp. 69-87.

Cohon, Rachel, “Is Hume a Noncognitivist in the Motivation Argument?”, Philosophical Studies 85 (1997), pp. 251-266.

Cohon, Rachel, “The Common Point of View in Hume’s Ethics,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 57, no. 4 (Dec. 1997), pp. 827-850. 

Coleman, Dorothy, ‘Hume’s Internalism’, Hume Studies, 18 (1992), pp. 331-47.

Darwall, Stephen, “Hume and the Invention of Utilitarianism,” M. A. Stewart and John P. Wright, eds., Hume and Hume’s Connections (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1994), pp. 58-82.

Darwall, Stephen, “Motive and Obligation in Hume’s Ethics,” Nous 27, no. 4 (1993), pp. 415-448.

Davidson, Donald. “Hume’s Cognitive Theory of Pride.”Journal of Philosophy 73 (1967), pp. 744-57.

Dees, Richard, “Hume on the Characters of Virtue,” Journal of the History of Philosophy 35, no. 1 (January 1997), pp. 45-64.

Falk, W. D., “Hume on Is and Ought” Canadian Journal of Philosophy 6, (S 1976), pp. 359-378.

Falk, W.D., ‘Hume on Practical Reason’, Philosophical Studies, 27 (1975), pp. 1-8.

Fogelin, Robert J.Hume’s Skepticism in the Treatise of Human Nature.(London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1985).

Foot, Philippa, “Hume on Moral Judgement,” in David Pears, ed., David Hume (London, 1963), reprinted in Virtues and Vices, 1978, pp. 74-80. 

Gauthier, David, ‘Three against Justice: The Foole, the Sensible Knave, and the Lydian Shepherd’, Midwest Studies in Philosophy VII (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1982), pp. 11-29.

Gauthier, David, “Artificial Virtues and the Sensible Knave,” Hume Studies 18, no. 2 (Nov. 1992), pp. 401-427.

Gauthier, David.“David Hume, Contractarian.”Philosophical Review 88 (1979), pp. 3-38.

Glathe, A.B.Hume’s Theory of the Passions and of Morals: A Study of Books II and III of the Treatise.(Berkeley: University of California Press, 1950).

Glossop, Ronald J., ‘Is Hume a “Classical Utilitarian”?, Hume Studies, 2 (1976), pp. 1-16.

Haakonssen, Knud.“Hume’s Obligations.”Hume Studies 4 (1978), pp. 7-17.

Haakonssen, Knud.The Science of a Legislator: The Natural Jurisprudence of David Hume and Adam Smith.(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981).

Harrison, Jonathan, Hume’s Moral Epistemology (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1976).

Harrison, Jonathan.Hume’s Theory of Justice.(Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1981).

Hearn, Thomas K., ‘General Rules and the Moral Sentiments in Hume’s Treatise’, Review of Metaphysics, 30 (1976), pp. 57-72.

Jenkins, John J., ‘Hume’s Account of Sympathy – Some Difficulties’, in V. Hope (ed.), Philosophers of the Scottish Enlightenment (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1984), pp. 91-104.

Jones, Peter.“Cause, Reason, and Objectivity in Hume’s Aesthetics,” in Hume: A Re-evaluation

Jones, Peter.Hume’s Sentiments: Their Ciceronian and French Context.(Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1982).

Kivy, Peter.“Hume’s Standard of Taste: Breaking the Circle.”British Journal of Aesthetics 7 (1967), pp. 57-66.

Korsgaard, Christine, “Constructing Character: Hume on Moral Approval, Love, and the General Point of View,” Hume Studies. (April/November 1999).

Kydd, Rachel M.Reason and Conduct in Hume’s Treatise.(Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1946); reprint, 1964.

Mackie, John L.Hume’s Moral Theory.(London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1980).

Magri, Tito, “Natural Obligation and Normative Motivation in Hume’s Treatise,” Hume Studies 22, no. 2 (Nov. 1996), pp. 231-253.

McCracken, D.J., ‘David Hume and the Sentiment of Humanity’, Actes du XI Congress International de Philosophie, 8 (1953), pp. 100-3.

MacIntyre, Alasdair C.“Hume on ‘Is’ and ‘Ought.’”Philosophical Review 68 (1959), pp. 451-68. 

McIntyre, Jane L.“Character: a Humean Account.”History of Philosophy Quarterly 7 (1990), pp. 193-206.

McIntyre, Jane, “Character: a Humean Account,” History of Philosophy Quarterly 7 (1990), pp. 193-206.

Mercer, Philip, Sympathy and Ethics: A Study of the Relationship between Sympathy and Morality, with Special Reference to Hume’s Treatise (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1972).

Millgram, Elijah, “Was Hume a Humean?”, Hume Studies 21, no. 1 (1995), pp. 75-93.

Nuyen, A.T., ‘David Hume on Reason, Passions and Morals’, Hume Studies, 10 (1984), pp. 26-45.

Postema, Gerald, ‘Hume’s Reply to the Sensible Knave’, History of Philosophy Quarterly, 5 (1988), pp. 23-40.

Radcliffe, Elizabeth, "How Does the Humean Sense of Duty Motivate?," Journal of the History of Philosophy 34 (July 1996), pp. 47-70.

Radcliffe, Elizabeth, “Kantian Tunes on a Humean Instrument: Why Hume Is Not Really a Skeptic about Practical Reasoning,” Canadian Journal of Philosophy 27 (June 1997), pp. 247-69.

Raphael, D.D. (ed.), British Moralists 1650-1800, 2 vols. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1969; repr. Indianapolis: Hackett, 1991).

Raphael, D.D., The Moral Sense (London: Oxford University Press, 1947).

Sayre-McCord, Geoffrey, ""On Why Hume's 'General Point of View' Isn't Ideal -- and Shouldn't Be," in Social Philosophy & Policy, volume 11, number 1 (Winter 1994), pp. 202-228.

Sayre-McCord, Geoffrey, "Hume and the Bauhaus Theory of Ethics," Midwest Studies in Philosophy, Vol. XX (University of Notre Dame Press, 1996), pp. 280-298.

Schneewind, Jerome B. (ed.), Moral Philosophy from Montaigne to Kant, 2 vols. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990).

Selby-Bigge, L.A. (ed.), British Moralists: Being Selections from Writers principally of theEighteenth Century, 2 vols. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1897; repr. New York: Dover, 1965).

Shaver, Robert, ‘Hume and the Duties of Humanity’, Journal of the History of Philosophy, 30 (1992), pp. 545-56.

Snare, Francis.Morals Motivation and Convention: Hume’s Influential Doctrines.(New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991).

Stroud, Barry, “‘Gilding or Staining’ the World with ‘Sentiments’ and Phantasms,’” Hume Studies 19, no. 2, (Nov. 1993), pp. 253-272.

Stroud, Barry.Hume.(London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1977).

Taylor, Jacqueline, “Justice and the Foundations of Social Morality in Hume’s Treatise,” Hume Studies 24, no. 1 (April 1998), pp. 5-30.

Vanterpool, Rudolph V., ‘Hume on the “Duty” of Benevolence’, Hume Studies, 14 (Apr. 1988), pp. 93-110.