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Hume’s Functionalism 休谟的功能主义
4区 哲学 Pub Date : 2023-04-01 DOI: 10.1353/hms.2023.0009
S. Hosseini
Abstract:This paper claims that Hume is committed to a rather sophisticated form of functionalism. This claim is based upon the following arguments: first, Hume’s characterization of objects such as vegetables and animal bodies in terms of their functional identity, and their underlying analogy with the identity we ascribe to persons or selves, implies that an absolute constancy is not part of the essential nature of persons. Rather, what corresponds to this assumed metaphysical constancy is functional identity. Second, Hume’s distinction between the question concerning the substance of the mind on the one hand, and the questions concerning the local conjunction and cause of our perceptions, on the other, has much in common with, and anticipates, the much-celebrated functionalist distinction between the ontology and metaphysics of the mind.
摘要:休谟致力于一种相当复杂的功能主义形式。这一主张基于以下论点:首先,休谟对蔬菜和动物身体等物体的功能同一性的描述,以及它们与我们赋予人或自我的同一性的潜在类比,意味着绝对的恒定性不是人的本质的一部分。相反,与这种假定的形而上学恒常性相对应的是功能同一性。其次,休谟对关于心灵实质的问题和关于我们知觉的局部联系和原因的问题的区分,一方面与著名的功能主义对心灵本体论和形而上学的区分有很多共同之处,并且预示着这一点。
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Not Circular: Hume’s “Of the Standard of Taste” 非循环:休谟的“品味标准论”
4区 哲学 Pub Date : 2023-04-01 DOI: 10.1353/hms.2023.0008
M. Windsor
Abstract:One of the gravest charges that has been brought against Hume’s essay “Of the Standard of Taste” is that of circularity. Hume is accused of defining good art in terms of “true judges,” and of defining true judges in terms of their ability to judge good art. First, I argue that Hume avoids circularity since he offers a way of identifying good art that is logically independent of the verdict of true judges. Second, I argue that this clarifies an enduring puzzle in the scholarship on Hume’s essay: why he appears to offer not one, but two standards of taste. Hume’s standard does not consist of general rules; however, Hume needs general rules to establish that some individuals’ tastes are more “delicate” than others’.
摘要:对休谟的文章《品味的标准》提出的最严重的指控之一是循环性。休谟被指责用“真正的法官”来定义好的艺术,并用他们评判好的艺术的能力来定义真正的法官。首先,我认为休谟避免了循环性,因为他提供了一种在逻辑上独立于真正法官裁决的识别好艺术的方法。其次,我认为这澄清了休谟文章学术界的一个长期困惑:为什么他似乎提供的不是一个,而是两个品味标准。休谟的标准不包括一般规则;然而,休谟需要一般规则来证明某些人的品味比其他人的品味更“微妙”。
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Hume’s Hypothesis of the Double Relation of Impressions and Ideas in the Treatise 休谟在《人性论》中关于印象与观念双重关系的假设
4区 哲学 Pub Date : 2023-04-01 DOI: 10.1353/hms.2023.0010
Haruko Inoue
Abstract:What is Hume’s hypothesis of the double relation of impressions and ideas from which a passion arises? How does it operate in structuring his system? These are primary questions that need to be answered in order to understand Hume’s intention in the Treatise. Yet, there exists no reasonable answers, nor serious attempts to answer them, probably because this hypothesis is considered as a limited issue, relevant only to the indirect passions, or because it is too mechanical and unsophisticated to excite critics’ curiosities. My present aim is to show that Hume’s double relation of impressions and ideas operating in the production of indirect passions is integral to his entire system not only in that it serves as a powerful weapon to advocate his naturalistic position, but also in that it is a highly sophisticated psychological mechanism that functions as a schema for the cooperation of the imagination and the passions.
摘要:休谟关于激情产生的印象和观念的双重关系的假设是什么?它在构建他的体系时是如何运作的?这些都是需要回答的主要问题,以便理解休谟在《论》中的意图。然而,既没有合理的答案,也没有认真的尝试来回答这些问题,可能是因为这个假设被认为是一个有限的问题,只与间接的激情有关,或者是因为它过于机械和简单,无法激发评论家的好奇心。我现在的目的是表明,休谟的印象和思想在间接激情的产生中的双重关系是他整个体系不可或缺的,不仅因为它是倡导他的自然主义立场的有力武器,但也因为它是一种高度复杂的心理机制,作为想象力和激情合作的模式。
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Spirit and Politics: Some Thoughts on Margaret Watkins’s The Philosophical Progress of Hume’s “Essays” 精神与政治:对玛格丽特·沃特金斯《休谟文集的哲学历程》的一些思考
4区 哲学 Pub Date : 2023-04-01 DOI: 10.1353/hms.2023.0001
A. Willis
Margaret Watkins’s elegant text, The Philosophical Progress of Hume’s Essays (2019), 1 is marked by a Humean approach: it fosters philosophical consideration of both the faculties of the mind and the affective features of experience in ways that bear on practical, moral issues. Ever-attentive to the meaning of Hume’s various nuances and strategic ambiguities, Watkins’s even-handed approach guides us into a broad swath of Hume’s ideas and marches us through a trajectory of secondary interlocutors. It also establishes Watkins as an integral part of Hume’s lineage, in the sense that she understands that thoughtful writing itself is an intellectual virtue. Her “unusual sensitivity, not to life’s daily vicissitudes but to beauties and deformities” (193) 2 richly textures her overall argument that positions Hume’s Essays as a filter for his vision of “true philosophy:” that reflective turn towards nature and common life that openly challenges abstruse reasoning, fluently embraces historicism and perspectivalism, and deftly foregrounds the usefulness of ideas over their logical certainty. As much as Watkins reveals Hume’s vision for philosophy, she also extends it; for, among other things, her consideration of Hume’s unique endeavor in philosophical literature (ultimately collected under the title Essays, Moral, Political and Literary [1758])
玛格丽特·沃特金斯(Margaret Watkins)的优雅文本《休谟散文的哲学进展》(2019)1以休谟的方法为标志:它以涉及实际道德问题的方式,促进了对心智能力和经验情感特征的哲学思考。沃特金斯一直关注着休谟各种细微差别和战略模糊的含义,他不偏不倚的方法引导我们深入了解休谟的广泛思想,并引导我们进入次要对话者的轨道。这也使沃特金斯成为休谟谱系中不可或缺的一部分,因为她明白深思熟虑的写作本身就是一种智力美德。她“不同寻常的敏感,不是对生活的日常变化,而是对美丽和畸形”(193)2丰富地阐述了她的总体论点,将休谟的《随笔》定位为他“真正哲学”愿景的过滤器:对自然和普通生活的反思转向,公开挑战深奥的推理,流畅地拥抱历史主义和透视主义,并巧妙地将思想的有用性置于其逻辑确定性之上。尽管沃特金斯揭示了休谟的哲学视野,但她也扩展了这一视野;除其他外,她对休谟在哲学文学方面的独特努力的思考(最终以《散文、道德、政治和文学》[1758]的标题收集)
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Comments on Margaret Watkins, The Philosophical Progress of Hume’s “Essays” 评玛格丽特·沃特金斯《休谟散文的哲学进展》
4区 哲学 Pub Date : 2023-04-01 DOI: 10.1353/hms.2023.0002
Jacqueline Taylor
After David Hume’s death, Adam Smith wrote a letter to Hume’s publisher, William Strahan, to recount some of the final words and the attitude of “our late excellent friend, Mr. Hume.”1 Despite declining health and increasing weakness, Hume faced his approaching demise “with great cheerfulness” (EMPL xlvi). He had recently been reading Lucian’s Dialogues of the Dead, and although feeling he had every reason “to die contented,” Smith describes the “jocular excuses” Hume might make to Charon to delay his death (EMPL xlv). He first requests more time so that he can see how the public responds to the latest corrections he had been making to his works, but Charon replied that this would only lead Hume to want more time to make further corrections. Hume tries another tack: “Have a little patience, good Charon, I have been endeavouring to open the eyes of the public. If I live a few years longer, I may have the satisfaction of seeing the downfall of some of the prevailing systems of superstition,” to which Charon replies, “You loitering rogue, that will not happen these many hundred years . . . Get into the boat this instant, you lazy loitering rogue” (EMPL xlvi). This imaginary dialogue makes evident Hume’s self-awareness as an author who cared greatly about both the correctness of his written works and the influence of these works on the public. In her book, Margaret Watkins argues that Hume’s concern to open the eyes of the public goes well beyond attempts to bring about the downfall of systems of superstition.2 She credits him with the broader aim of writing essays for a literate audience that would stimulate both public and individual improvement in various areas of human activity, including government, work, aesthetic experience, and inti-
大卫·休谟去世后,亚当·斯密给休谟的出版商威廉·斯特拉汉写了一封信,讲述了“我们已故的好朋友,休谟先生”的一些遗言和态度。他最近一直在阅读卢西恩的《亡灵对话》,尽管他觉得自己完全有理由“满足地死去”,但史密斯描述了休谟可能向查伦提出的推迟死亡的“滑稽借口”(EMPL xlv)。他首先要求更多的时间,这样他就可以看到公众对他对自己作品所做的最新更正的反应,但查伦回答说,这只会让休谟想要更多的时间来进行进一步的更正。休谟尝试了另一种策略:“耐心一点,善良的查伦,我一直在努力打开公众的眼睛。如果我再活几年,我可能会满意地看到一些盛行的迷信制度的衰落,”查伦回答道,“你这个游荡的流氓,这几百年都不会发生……马上上船,你这个懒惰的游荡的流氓”(EMPL xlvi)。这种想象中的对话表明了休谟作为一个作家的自我意识,他非常关心自己作品的正确性以及这些作品对公众的影响。玛格丽特·沃特金斯(Margaret Watkins)在她的书中认为,休谟关注的是打开公众的眼睛,远远超出了试图推翻迷信制度的范围。2她认为,休谟的更广泛目标是为识字的读者写文章,这将刺激公众和个人在人类活动的各个领域的进步,包括政府、工作、审美体验,和inti-
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Reply to My Critics 回复批评我的人
4区 哲学 Pub Date : 2023-04-01 DOI: 10.1353/hms.2023.0003
Margaret Watkins
Science is related to wisdom as virtuousness is related to holiness; it is cold and dry, it has not love and knows nothing of a deep feeling of inadequacy and longing. It is as useful to itself as it is harmful to its servants, insofar as it transfers its own character to them and thereby ossifies their humanity. As long as what is meant by culture is essentially the promotion of science, culture will pass the great suffering human being by with pitiless coldness, because science sees everywhere only problems of knowledge and because within the world of the sciences suffering is really something improper and incomprehensible, thus at best only one more problem.1
科学与智慧的关系,正如美德与圣洁的关系;它又冷又干,它没有爱,也不知道什么是深切的不足和渴望。它对自己是有益的,对它的仆人是有害的,因为它把自己的性格转移到他们身上,从而使他们的人性僵化。只要文化的意义本质上是促进科学,文化就会以无情的冷漠对待人类的巨大苦难,因为科学到处只看到知识的问题,因为在科学的世界里,苦难实际上是一种不恰当的、不可理解的东西,因此充其量只是多了一个问题
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The Imagination in Hume’s Philosophy: The Canvas of the Mind by Timothy M. Costelloe 休谟哲学中的想象:蒂莫西·m·科斯特洛《心灵的画布
4区 哲学 Pub Date : 2023-04-01 DOI: 10.1353/hms.2023.0004
Saul Traiger
Reviewed by: The Imagination in Hume’s Philosophy: The Canvas of the Mind by Timothy M. Costelloe Saul Traiger Timothy M. Costelloe. The Imagination in Hume’s Philosophy: The Canvas of the Mind. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2018. Pp. xv + 312. Hardback. ISBN: 9781474436397. $107.00. If anything about Hume’s philosophy can be characterized as widely accepted, it is that the imagination is front and center in Hume’s account of the mind. The aim of Timothy Costelloe’s book is to fully develop the observation, that the imagination, as Hume understands it, is “the canvas of the mind.” Costelloe amply demonstrates that the imagination is a broad canvas, ranging from Hume’s epistemology and metaphysics, to his aesthetics, moral and political philosophy, history, philosophy of religion, and his general conception of philosophy itself. Seven substantial chapters cover these areas, and show how Hume takes the imagination to play a pivotal role in each. One of the many strengths of this book is that Costelloe responsibly mines the secondary literature, carefully explaining the interpretations he seconds and those he finds wanting. The attention to the relevant secondary literature is apparent from the start, where Costelloe laments the surprising dearth of book-length treatments of Hume on the imagination, but helpfully highlights both the lesser known Hume-centric monographs on the imagination by Furlong and Wilbanks, as well as more widely read interpretations. The introductory chapter makes important distinctions and introduces some main concepts. Hume differentiates the imagination’s “combinatory power” from its “creative power.” While the uninhibited ability to concatenate ideas might also be seen as a creative act, Costelloe sees the creative power where the imagination [End Page 173] “generates a class of ideas—‘fictions’ of a certain sort—independent of experience and according to its own inner logic” (21). This characterization makes sense when viewing the imagination’s function as directed towards a goal, such as achieving coherence or creating an aesthetically pleasing effect. Costelloe suggests that achieving an aesthetically pleasing effect is an element in any exercise of the imagination’s creative power. The imagination creates easy transitions among ideas where there were none, where doing so is pleasurable, or aided by the passions. Costelloe introduces his account of Hume’s fictions as errors of the imagination whereby ideas are formed in a manner different from the standard derivation from antecedent impressions. He insists, helpfully, that fictions are not illusions, but rather errors of a different kind. Though both involve error, fictions, unlike illusions, are not described in terms of jest or irony (30). Though he acknowledges that Hume does not describe any fictions as “artificial,” Costelloe finds it helpful to draw a distinction between natural and artificial fictions. Natural fictions are generated without reflection. A
书评:《休谟哲学中的想象:心灵的画布》作者:蒂莫西·m·科斯特洛休谟哲学中的想象:心灵的画布。爱丁堡:爱丁堡大学出版社,2018。第15页+ 312页。精装版。ISBN: 9781474436397。107.00美元。如果说休谟的哲学有什么特点是被广泛接受的,那就是想象是休谟对心灵的描述的前沿和中心。蒂莫西·科斯特洛(Timothy costello)这本书的目的是充分发展这一观察,即想象,正如休谟所理解的那样,是“心灵的画布”。科斯特洛充分展示了想象是一个广阔的画布,从休谟的认识论和形而上学,到他的美学,道德和政治哲学,历史,宗教哲学,以及他对哲学本身的一般概念。七个实质性的章节涵盖了这些领域,并展示了休谟如何在每个领域发挥想象力的关键作用。这本书的众多优点之一是,科斯特洛负责地挖掘二手文献,仔细解释他认可的解释和他发现的不足之处。对相关二手文献的关注从一开始就很明显,科斯特洛在书中哀叹休谟在想象方面的著述少得惊人,但他也很有帮助地强调了弗朗和威尔班克斯所著的以休谟为中心的、鲜为人知的关于想象的专著,以及更广泛阅读的解释。导论部分做了重要的区分,并介绍了一些主要概念。休谟区分了想象力的“组合能力”和“创造力”。虽然这种不受约束的将想法串联起来的能力也可以被视为一种创造性的行为,但科斯特洛认为,想象力“产生了一类想法——某种类型的‘虚构’——独立于经验,并根据其自身的内在逻辑”(21)。当把想象力的功能看作是指向一个目标时,比如实现连贯或创造一种美学上令人愉悦的效果,这种特征是有道理的。科斯特洛认为,实现美学上的愉悦效果是任何想象力创造力练习的一个要素。想象可以在没有想法的地方轻松地转换,这样做是愉快的,或者是在激情的帮助下。科斯特洛介绍了他对休谟小说的描述,认为它是想象的错误,在这种错误中,思想以一种不同于先前印象的标准衍生方式形成。他坚持认为,小说不是幻觉,而是另一种错误。虽然两者都涉及错误,但小说与幻想不同,不会用玩笑或讽刺来描述(30)。尽管科斯特洛承认休谟并没有将任何小说描述为“人造的”,但他认为区分自然小说和人造小说是有帮助的。自然的虚构是不经思考而产生的。虚构的小说,如诗人和哲学家创作的小说,来自“想象的自发行为”(31)。科斯特洛认为,人为的虚构“很少被认为是指真实存在的物体,任何公开宣称的信仰实际上都是人们被说服相信某件事,并将所讨论的想法视为具有真实的参照物,因此只是出于这样或那样的原因才使自己存在”(31)。这有点不清楚。当然,诗歌小说是自愿创作的,不打算参考真实的对象。但是实体,以及理念和外部客体的双重存在,作为哲学的虚构,当然都涉及信仰和相应的哲学家的存在性承诺。也很难看出所谓的信仰和把思想当作真实的参照物之间的对比。第二章是关于形而上学的,是书中最长的一章,它讲述了休谟对空间和时间,持续和独特的存在,自由和必然性,以及个人身份的描述中想象的虚构。科斯特洛对将休谟在《人性论》第一卷中的主题归类为形而上学的担忧很敏感,这可能会显得轻视了核心的认识论问题,也未能理解休谟新生的认知心理学。当科斯特洛探索想象力在我们的“不变的持续时间”概念的形成过程中所起的作用时,这些担忧就消失了。
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The Concealed Influence of Custom: Hume’s “Treatise” from the Inside Out by Jay L. Garfield (review) 习俗的隐性影响:从内到外看休谟的《人性论》(书评)
4区 哲学 Pub Date : 2023-04-01 DOI: 10.1353/hms.2023.0005
J. Laursen
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Hume Studies Referees (Jan. 2021–June 2022) 休谟研究推荐人(2021年1月- 2022年6月)
4区 哲学 Pub Date : 2022-11-01 DOI: 10.1353/hms.2022.0021
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Hume and the Royal African 休谟与非洲人
4区 哲学 Pub Date : 2022-10-28 DOI: 10.1353/hms.2022.0016
M. Grober
Abstract:A previously overlooked letter written by David Hume to the Comtesse de Boufflers in 1766, read alongside an unpublished letter to Hume from the British official John Roberts, sheds important new light on Hume’s views on race. The letters concern a famous episode in eighteenth-century history, the enslavement and redemption of the “African Prince,” William Ansah Sessarakoo, and his subsequent time as a celebrity in London in 1749–50. Hume’s account of these events, based on Roberts’s letter but re-shaped through a pattern of strategic omissions, additions, and prejudicial commentary, conveys an unmistakable attitude of contempt toward Africans. Hume’s letter, which is his longest piece of writing on any African topic, shows that the racist views stated in the notorious footnote on human “species” or “kinds,” added to the essay “Of National Characters” in 1753–54, were not isolated or incidental, but rather the expression of a settled attitude. Hume’s letter likely also represents his critical response to a lost play by Boufflers, based on a story in The Spectator that attributed qualities of nobility to slaves in the New World.
摘要:大卫·休谟1766年写给布弗勒伯爵夫人的一封以前被忽视的信,与英国官员约翰·罗伯茨给休谟的一封未发表的信一起阅读,为休谟的种族观提供了重要的新视角。这些信件涉及18世纪历史上的一个著名事件,即“非洲王子”威廉·安萨·塞萨拉科的奴役和救赎,以及他随后于1749年至1740年在伦敦成为名人。休谟对这些事件的描述,基于罗伯茨的信,但通过战略性的遗漏、补充和带有偏见的评论模式进行了重新塑造,传达了对非洲人明确无误的蔑视态度。休谟的这封信是他在任何非洲话题上写的最长的一封信,它表明,1753-54年添加到《民族性格》一文中的关于人类“物种”或“种类”的臭名昭著的脚注中所表达的种族主义观点并不是孤立或偶然的,而是一种既定态度的表达。休谟的信很可能也代表了他对布弗勒的一部失败戏剧的批评回应,该剧基于《旁观者》中的一个故事,该故事将贵族的品质归因于新世界的奴隶。
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