Imagination in Hume's Philosophy

Timothy Costelloe is Professor of Philosophy at The College of William & Mary. He is the author of Aesthetics and Morals in the Philosophy of David Hume (Routledge, 2007), The British Aesthetic Tradition: From Shaftesbury to Wittgenstein (Cambridge University Press, 2013) and he is editor of The Sublime: From Antiquity to the Present (Cambridge University Press, 2012).

• List of Abbreviations; Preface; 1. Hume's Imagination; 2. Metaphysics; 3. Morals and Politics; 4. Aesthetics; 5. History; 6. Religion; 7. Philosophy; Bibliography.

Costelloe (William and Mary) offers a thorough explication of Hume’s account of the imagination. … In addition to its value for philosophers, the book will perhaps be useful to scholars of 18th-century English literature who are interested in the imagination specifically or its application to Humean thought in areas such as ethics and metaphysics. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above.