Bøker av Annette C. Baier

Annette Baier delivers an appeal for our fundamental moral notions to be governed not by rules and codes but by trust: a moral prejudice. Along the way, she gives us the best feminist philosophy there is.

Baier aims to make sense of Hume's Treatise as a whole. Hume's family motto was "True to the End." Baier argues that it is not until the end of the Treatise that we get his full story about "truth and falsehood, reason and folly." By the end, we can see the cause to which Hume has been true throughout the work.

Annette Baier goes beyond her earlier work on David Hume to reflect on a topic that links his philosophy to questions of immediate relevance-in particular, questions about what character is and how it shapes our lives. Her reading radically revises the received interpretation of Hume's epistemology and, in particular, philosophy of mind.

Marking the tercentenary of Hume's birth, Annette Baier has created an engaging guide to the philosophy of one of the greatest thinkers of Enlightenment Britain. Drawing on a lifetime of scholarship and incisive commentary, she finds in Hume's personal experiences new ways to illuminate his ideas about religion, human nature, and the social order.

Offers an understanding of David Hume by examining what he meant by 'justice'. This title investigates the role of the natural virtue of equity (which Hume always understood to constrain justice) in Hume's thought, arguing that Hume's view of equity can serve to balance his account of the artificial virtue of justice.