Hume's Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion

Paul Russell is Professor Emeritus in Philosophy at the University of British Columbia. He is the author of a number of books including The Riddle of Hume's Treatise (2008) and Recasting Hume and Early Modern Philosophy (2021), and the editor of The Oxford Handbook of Hume (2016).

• Introduction; Part I. Hume's Dialogues: 1. Hume and the argument from design Dan O'Brien; 2. Hume's dialogues and intelligent design Graham Oppy; 3. Hume and strato's ghost: matter, order, and explanation in the dialogues Thomas Holden; 4. Reiding hume: hume, reid and reformed epistemology Kelly James Clark; 5. Darwin and Hume's dialogues John Beatty; 6. Against the cosmological argument: the legacy of Hume's dialogues, Part 9 Angela Coventry; 7. The misery and wickedness of man Robin Le Poidevin; 8. The shadow of scepticism: reasoning about religion in Hume's dialogues Kevin Meeker; 9. Hume's dialogues and the habits of religion Andre C. Willis; 10. Ambiguity and 'Atheism' in Hume's dialogues Paul Russell; Part II. Other Writings on Religion: 11. The practical insignificance of natural religion: Hume's response to butler Jennifer Marušić; 12. Weighing up Hume's 'Of Miracles' Peter Millican; 13. History, natural history, and natural religion Amyas Merivale; 14. Hume on suicide, superstition and morality Willem Lemmens; Bibliography; Index.