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Critical Notice: James A Harris’ Hume: an intellectual biography, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2020

Anders Kraal
Anders Kraal*
Affiliation:
Department of Philosophy, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
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E-mail: anders.kraal@ubc.ca
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Abstract

James Harris’s new Hume biography offers, among other things, ‘a series of conjectures as to what Hume’s intentions were in writing in the particular ways that he did about human nature, politics, economics, history, and religion’. The biography is particularly novel with regard to Hume’s intentions when writing about religion, which, Harris argues (in opposition to recent developments in Hume scholarship), were rather benign. Harris fails to appreciate the full extent of the difficulties attaching to his series of conjectures, however.

Keywords

David Humebiography
Type
Research Article
Information
Canadian Journal of Philosophy , Volume 48 , Issue 1 , 2018 , pp. 129 - 141
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Journal of Philosophy 2017

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