Feminist Interpretations of David Hume

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Anne Jaap Jacobson
Penn State Press, 2010 M11 1
 

Contents

A Double ReReading
19
Hume on the Passion for Truth
39
Reconceptualizing Reasoning and Writing the Philosophical
60
The Metaphorics of Humes Gendered Skepticism 55
85
Hume and the Reality of Value
107
Mr Hobbes Could Have Said No More
137
Compassion as a Virtue in Hume
156
A Feminist Rereading
174
A Humean Voice
194
Humean Androgynes and the Nature of Nature
218
False Delicacy
239
Hume and the History of England
263
Superstition and the Timid Sex
283
Bibliography
309
Index
315
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