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Hume and Smith on Sympathy , Approbation , and Moral Judgment

David Hume and Adam Smith are usually, and understandably, seen as developing very similar sentimentalist accounts of moral thought and practice. Hume’s views are better known, not least because Smith’s work on moral sentiments fell in the shadow of his tremendously influential Wealth of Nations. This shadowing is unfortunate, both because Smith’s work on moral sentiments is deeply insightful a...

Hume, the New Hume, and Causal Connections

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What Is Wrong with Reid’s Criticism of Hume on Moral Approbation?

In his Essays on the Active Powers, Thomas reid criticises Hume’s theory of moral judgment and argues that it is untenable. The aim of this paper is to show that reid shares more with his target than is ordinarily acknowledged. The author suggests that the opposition between “cognitivism” and “non-cognitivism” concerning the role of feelings in moral judgment tends to obscure (disputable) assum...

The Notion of Moral Progress. in Hume’s Philosophy: Does Hume Have a Theory ofMoral Progress?

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Within the framework of equilibrium statistical mechanics the free energy of a phase gives a measure of its associated probabilistic weight. In order to determine phase boundaries one must then determine the conditions under which the free energy difference (FED) between two phases is zero. The underlying complexity usually rules out any analytical approaches to the problem, and one must theref...