Naturalisms in Spinoza, Hume, and Shepherd

1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-041-03663-0
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 340 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

This collection, including chapters by an outstanding roster of contributors, creates a dialogue among two philosophers rarely discussed together - Benedict Spinoza and David Hume - and one who until recently was hardly discussed at all - Mary Shepherd.

Naturalisms in Spinoza, Hume, and Shepherd confronts the traditional history of Modern philosophy that pitches “Continental Rationalists” against “British Empiricists”, with Benedict Spinoza on one side, David Hume on the other, and women philosophers - including Mary Shepherd - nowhere to be seen. This volume explores an alternative approach to the period, through the lens of “naturalisms”, which brings into focus the commonalities among these three philosophers. The contributors examine various naturalistic themes in their philosophies - particularly, in their methodologies, their ontologies, and their views about the human being and God. The specific topics explored include minds and bodies; mathematics and natural science; human beings and other animals; miracles; the passions and motivation; and the artificial virtues. A helpful introduction by the editors distinguishes the various naturalisms explored in the volume and explains the appeal of this approach to the history of Modern philosophy.

Naturalisms in Spinoza, Hume, and Shepherd will be of great interest to students and researchers of seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth-century philosophy, and to those interested in the history of metaphysics, philosophy of religion and the history and philosophy of science.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cottrell, Jonathan

Garrett, Aaron

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Contributors  Acknowledgements  Master Bibliography of Primary Texts  Introduction Jonathan Cottrell and Aaron Garrett  Part 1: Varieties of Naturalism  1. Spinoza, Hume, and Shepherd: Three Routes to Naturalism Don Garrett  2. Two Modern Sect of Naturalists Aaron Garrett  3. The Principle of Insufficient Reason and Naturalism in Hume and Spinoza Karl Schafer  4. The Question of Mary Shepherd’s Naturalism Antonia LoLordo  Part 2: Methodological Naturalisms  5. Spinoza and Hume on Pleasure and Desire: Two Models of Motivational Naturalism Justin Steinberg  6. Hume’s Painted Anatomy: On The Difficulties of Developing a Naturalistic Science of Human Nature Lorraine Besser  7. Naturalism Overcoming Scepticism: The Title Principle in the Treatise and First Enquiry Hsueh Qu  8. Shepherd’s Non-Sceptical Solution of Hume’s Doubts Jonathan Cottrell  Part 3: Ontological Naturalisms  9. Seven Challenges for Garrett’s Interpretation of Mind-Body Identity in Spinoza John Morrison  10. Hume and Shepherd on Necessary Truths Maité Cruz  11. Dissolving the Mind-Body Problem with Chemical Substances: Shepherd’s Naturalistic Interactionism Ariel Melamedoff  Part 4: Anthropological Naturalisms  12. Spinoza and Hume on Human and Animal Reason Yitzhak Y. Melamed  13. The Case Against Cartesian Rationalism in Hume and Reid Louis E. Loeb  Part 5: Miracles and the Supernatural  14. Miracles and Reason: Converging Exclusions in Spinoza and Hume Angela Coventry  15. Mary Shepherd’s Critique of Hume on Miracles Peter Millican  Part 6: Naturalistic Views on Specific Topics  16. Humeanism in Spinoza and in Hume: Some Pathologies Michael Della Rocca  17. Desire in Spinoza and Hume Elizabeth S. Radcliffe  18. The Role of Gossip in Hume’s Naturalistic Theory of the Artificial Virtues Rachel Cohon  19. Shepherd and the Representation of Causal Relations David Landy.  Index

Über Autor(innen)

Jonathan Cottrell is Associate Professor in Philosophy at the University of Toronto Scarborough. He has published articles in The Philosophical Review, the Journal of the History of Philosophy, Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy, and other venues. He is currently researching and writing a monograph on David Hume’s philosophy of mind and psychology.

Aaron Garrett is Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Boston University, USA. He is the author of several books including Meaning in Spinoza's Method and Berkeley's Three Dialogues, and editor of The Routledge Companion to Eighteenth Century Philosophy (2017) and with James Harris Scottish Philosophy in the Eighteenth Century (2015). He is co-editor, with Pauliina Remes, of the book series Rewriting the History of Philosophy (Routledge).