...Neil Sinhababu This essay defends a strong version of the Humean theory of motivation on which desire is necessary both for motivation and for reasoning that changes our desires. Those who hold that moral judgments are beliefs with intrinsic motivational force need to oppose this view, and many...

...Daniel Nolan Cornell University 2003 Gerhard Preyer and Frank Siebelt, editors, Reality and Humean Supervenience: Essays on the Philosophy of David Lewis. Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, 2001. Pp xiii, 245. BOOK REVIEWS The Philosophical...

...Elizabeth S. Radcliffe Cornell University 2001 A CULTIVATED REASON: AN ESSAY ON HUME AND HUMEANISM. By Christopher Williams. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1999. Pp. x, 190. BOOK REVIEWS Notwithstanding these qualms, though...

...Louis deRosset A major source of latter-day skepticism about necessity is the work of David Hume. Hume is widely taken to have endorsed the Humean claim : there are no necessary connections between distinct existences. The Humean claim is defended on the grounds that necessary connections between...

...David Enoch In Slaves of the Passions Mark Schroeder puts forward Hypotheticalism, his version of a Humean theory of normative reasons that is capable, so he argues, of avoiding many of the difficulties Humeanism is traditionally vulnerable to. This critical notice first outlines the main argument...

... and modality—causation, chance, laws, and the like. As Callender notes, his instincts about modality are Humean, so he is suspicious of attempts to say what is distinctive about time by appeal to primitive modalities such as causation: “Reducing time to causation has always seemed to be a case of explaining...

... as an alternative to Humeanism” (7). Ellis summarizes Humeanism in five theses (7): 1. That causal relations hold between logically independent events. 2. That the laws of nature are behavioral regularities of some kind that could, in principle, be found to exist in any field of inquiry...

... theory of causation is the notion of a real ground or causal power that is non-Humean (since it doesn't reduce to regularities or counterfactual dependencies among events or states) and non-Leibnizean because it doesn't reduce to logical or conceptual relations. However, we raise questions about...

... need in order to write the “book of the world.” This paper attempts to make good on this metaphor. To that end, a modality is introduced that, put informally, stands to propositions as logical truth stands to sentences. The resulting theory, formulated in higher-order logic, also vindicates the Humean...

... measurement methods” (34). Roberts maintains that his approach to laws of nature is consistent with either a Humean or a non-Humean understanding of measurement, and can thus be used as an outline to a Humean or a non-Humean view of laws, although he admits that the combination with Humeanism is more natural...

... as a counterexample: a predictor serves as a link in a causal chain defeating its own prediction. In terms of human choice, if I am told I will A tomorrow, there is nothing preventing me from choosing to ∼A . The solution here falls back to holding a Humean understanding of laws, since if the laws and initial...

.... NATALIEBENDER Wesleyan university The Philosophical him,Vol. 110, No. 3 (July 2001) A CULTNATED REASON: AN ESSAY ON HUME AND HUMEANISM. By CHRISTOPHERWILLIAMS. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1999. Pp. x, 190. The main aim...

..., properties. All these gradations, as I take it, are to be identified a postm’ori. For lack of space, I pass over the wealth of material available in the other nineteen papers in favour of commenting on one great theme in Lewis’s metaphysics. This is his continuous upholding of the “Humean...

... a principle called fundamental exactness on certain anti-Humeanism but not on Humeanism about laws of nature. (The first part of section 2.1 may be skimmed by experts in vagueness.) Second (section 3 ), I focus on the case of the Past Hypothesis (PH), the postulate that (roughly) the universe started...

... degree of belief, but rather stably high enough degree of belief. The formal content of this is given by what Leitgeb calls ‘the Humean thesis’. Where Pr is a rational person's degree-of-belief function and ‘high enough degree of belief’ is understood as a degree of belief above a certain threshold...

...Alex Byrne Joseph Levine, Purple Haze: The Puzzle of Consciousness. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. Pp. 204. Cornell University 2002 BOOK REVIEWS correct insofar as he thinks Humeanism is committed to object transubstantia- tion...

... it can be to get normative claims to come out true. Street's essay addresses the normative significance of our contingent evaluative attitudes. Though packaged as addressing a “strictly intramural debate” between Humean and Kantian versions of constructivism, I think this topic is of broader...

... from Hume’s intentions in two respects. First, Hume’s direct and explicit concern is with the role of the inferential fac- ulty, reason, rather than with the role of belief as such. Failure to appreciate this point leads Bricke unfairly to diagnose as incomplete the Humean argument...

... psychology. (He 131 BOOK REVIEWS calls these, respectively, “the Humean account” and “the Augmented Humean account Holton’s principal objection is that they mistake the phenomenol- ogy of strength of will, conceiving it simply...

... on David Lewis’s Best Systems Account, which is the most discussed account of what chance is in the literature. However, my goal is not Lewisian scholarship here. Instead, I want to use his account as a guide for bridging a metaphysics of chance with epistemic deference. Humean and reductionist accounts...