Showing posts with label Hume and Action. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hume and Action. Show all posts

Monday, October 18, 2010

Hume and Action Topics

 Some of the topics I will be covering in Hume and Action:

  • Wertfreiheit and the is/ought, or fact/value, divide
  • The irreduceability of logic, causality, and induction
  • Recent Hume studies trending toward interpreting Hume as a causal-realist
  • Hume's vital role, currently neglected in the liberal tradition, in the advent of scientific liberalism and modern economics.
  • The resonance between the ethics of Hume (misleadingly called hedonism) and that of Mises (misleadingly called utilitarianism).