This book is the first collection of feminist essays on one of
the central figures in the history of English-speaking philosophy.
Besides providing a rich variety of feminist viewpoints on a wide
range of Hume's writings, the contributors introduce new themes
into the scholarship on Hume, including gendered metaphors in his
metaphysical texts, the role of society in the conception of the
human mind, and his conception of human nature in relation to
recent rejections of essentialism.
Hume scholarship as a whole still reflects the relative neglect
in mainstream analytic philosophy of alternative--and so
feminist--perspectives on philosophy. The essays in this volume
show that the standard, narrow view of philosophy excludes valuable
perspectives.
These essays cover a great diversity of subjects in Hume's work.
They discuss his theory of knowledge; his conception of human
inquiry and the human mind; his views on our knowledge of the
external world and the future; his treatments of the passions,
emotions and virtue; his conception of moral education; his views
on aesthetics and religion; and his historical work.
The contributors, members of philosophy, political science,
theology, and English departments, employ a variety of critical
techniques. The result is a volume that stands in enlightening
contrast to the standard collections on David Hume.
Contributors are Annette C. Baier, Jennifer A. Herdt, Nancy J.
Hirschmann, Sheridan Hough, Anne Jaap Jacobson, Joyce Jenkins,
Genevieve Lloyd, Susan A. Martinelli-Fernandez, Robert Shaver,
Aaron Smuts, Christine Swanton, Jacqueline Taylor, Kathryn Temple,
and Christopher Williams.
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