Humean

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• The role of virtue in Humean/neo-Humean ethical theories.

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• The role of virtue in Humean/neo-Humean ethical theories.

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• As a Humean about causation, I would be perfectly happy to accept that the only sense we can make of the notion of a 'cause' is in terms of the truth of universal laws.

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• Maybe, why not? We should call it a "Humean" fraud because it consists of nothing else than the exploitation of our 'psychological' addiction to straightforward induction. It is the commonest fraud because common sense has it that what happened some way in the past will continue to happen that way in the future.

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• Deleuze and Santayana both, that is, regard thought as not only the Humean "slave of the passions," but also a spontaneous and violent power given to creative improvisation.

  Academic text (2017)

• Yet, the history of ethics (and its future, post-Wittgenstein) is replete with examples of alternative research programmes, which we might label (for want of a better term) "Humean-pluralist."

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• This reversal of the traditional function of reasoning may seem like Hume's view that the intellect is at the mercy of the passions, but some qualifications are necessary to avoid confusing it with the Humean view or with what we usually call rationalizations.

  Academic text (2016)

• The absence of a distinct terminology for the miraculous suggests that the authors of the Gospels were not working with a formal conception of "miracle"—at least not in that Humean sense of a "contravention of the laws of nature," familiar to modern readers.

  Academic text (2006)

• A true Humean would argue that knowledge is derived from experience rather than innate ideas.

• Philosophers often debate the implications of being a Humean in contemporary ethics.

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