The Infidel and the Professor: David Hume, Adam Smith, and the Friendship That Shaped Modern Thought. By Dennis C. Rasmussen. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2017. 316p. $29.95 cloth.
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DOI: 10.1017/s1537592718000361
Abstract: Walker, Moral Understandings, 1998) and its consequences for a generation. Critics of neoliberalism (e.g., Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos, 2015) have made deeper and more trenchant critiques of the discourse of personal responsibility. And there… read more here.
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David Hume and the culture of Scottish Newtonianism: methodology and ideology in enlightenment inquiry
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DOI: 10.1080/09608788.2018.1477733
Abstract: 1. First of all, to model things this way is useful: it helps us ‘in the pursuit of happiness, which is the ultimate end and design... that sets rational agents at work’ (204). 2. But… read more here.
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