Paul Russell is a Professor of Philosophy at Lund University (Sweden), where he also serves as Director of the Lund Gothenburg Responsibility Project (LGRP).

• Contents Introduction Acknowledgments Sources I. Metaphysics & Epistemology 1. Hume's "Two Definitions" of Cause and the Ontology of "Double Existence" Appendix 2020: Was Hume a "Causal Realist"? 2. Probability, Induction and a Future State: Hume contra Butler 3. The Material World and Natural Religion in Hume's Treatise 4. Causation, Cosmology and the Limits of Philosophy II. Free Will and Moral Luck 5. Of Gods and Clocks: Free Will and the Hobbes-Bramhall Debate 6. "Hume's Lengthy Digression": Free Will in the Treatise 7. Hume on Responsibility and Punishment 8. Smith on Moral Sentiment and Moral Luck III. Ethics, Virtue and Optimism 9. Hume's Anatomy of Virtue 10. Hume's Optimism and Williams' Pessimism IV. Skepticism, Religion and Atheism 11. Hume's Lucretian Mission: Is it Self-Refuting? 12. Hume's Skepticism and the Problem of Atheism Appendix: "Abduction and Hume's Atheism" 13. "True Religion" and Hume's Practical Atheism 14. Irreligion and the Impartial Spectator in Smith's Moral System V. Irreligion and the Unity of Hume's Thought 15. Hume's Legacy and the Idea of British Empiricism 16. Hume's Philosophy of Irreligion and the Myth of British Empiricism Other writings by Paul Russell on Hume and Early Modern Philosophy Index

... History of early modern philosophy scholarship—and Hume scholarship in particular—has been enriched by the carefully researched challenges to interpretative orthodoxy by Paul Russell for over four decades. We are the fortunate beneficiaries of Russell's legacy.