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Hume’s Works

The abbreviations and texts cited above are as follows:

[T]	A Treatise of Human Nature, edited by L. A. Selby-Bigge, 2nd ed. revised by P.H. Nidditch, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1975. [Page references above are to this edition.]
	A Treatise of Human Nature, edited by David Fate Norton and Mary J. Norton, Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.
[EHU]	An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding, in Enquiries concerning Human Understanding and concerning the Principles of Morals, edited by L. A. Selby-Bigge, 3rd edition revised by P. H. Nidditch, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1975.
[EHUa]	An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding, edited by Tom L. Beauchamp, Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
[EPM]	An Enquiry concerning the Principles of Morals, in Enquiries concerning Human Understanding and concerning the Principles of Morals, edited by L. A. Selby-Bigge, 3rd edition revised by P. H. Nidditch, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1975.[Page references above are to this edition.]
	Enquiry concerning the Principles of Morals, edited by Tom L. Beauchamp, Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.
[HL]	The Letters of David Hume, edited by J.Y.T. Greig, 2 volumes, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1932.
[PW]	The Philosophical Works of David Hume, edited by T. H. Green and T. H. Grose. 4 volumes, London: Longman, Green, 1874–75. [Page references below to individual essays are to volume 3 of this edition.]
[C]	“Of Commerce,” in PW, Volume 3.
[CL]	“Of Civil Liberty,” in PW, Volume 3.
[DOT]	“Of the Delicacy of Taste and Passion,” in PW, Volume 3.
[E]	“Of Eloquence,” in PW, Volume 3.
[OT]	“Of Tragedy,” in PW, Volume 3.
[S]	“The Sceptic,” in PW, Volume 3.
[SOT]	“Of the Standard of Taste,” in PW, Volume 3.
[SRW]	“Of Simplicity and Refinement in Writing,” in PW, Volume 3.

Works on Hume’s Aesthetics

Baceski, Tina, 2013. “Hume on Art Critics, Wise Men, and the Virtues of Taste,” Hume Studies, 39: 233–56. (Scholar)
Baxter, Donald L. M., 1990. “Hume on Virtue, Beauty, Composites, and Secondary Qualities,” Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, 71: 103–18. (Scholar)
Brown, Stuart Gerry, 1938. “Observations on Hume’s Theory of Taste,” English Studies, 20: 193–98. (Scholar)
Budd, Malcolm, 1991. “Hume’s Tragic Emotions,” Hume Studies, 17: 93–106. (Scholar)
Carroll, Noël, 1984. “Hume’s Standard of Taste,” Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 43: 181–94. (Scholar)
Cohen, Ralph, 1962. “The Transformation of Passion: A Study of Hume’s Theories of Tragedy,‘Antinomy of Taste’,” Philological Quarterly, 41: 450–64. (Scholar)
Cohen, Ted, 1994. “Partial Enchantment in Hume’s Essay on Taste,” in Robert Yanal (ed.), Institutions of Art: Reconsiderations of George Dickie’s Philosophy, University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 145–56. (Scholar)
Costelloe, Timothy M., 2003. “Hume, Kant, and the ‘Antinomy of Taste’,” Journal of the History of Philosophy, 41: 165–85. (Scholar)
–––, 2007. Aesthetics and Morals in the Philosophy of David Hume (Routledge Studies in Eighteenth Century Philosophy), London: Routledge. (Scholar)
–––, 2018. Imagination in Hume’s Philosophy: The Canvas of the Mind, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. (Scholar)
Dadlez, Eva M., 2002. “The Vicious Habits of Entirely Fictitious People: Hume on the Moral Evaluation of Art,” Philosophy and Literature, 26: 143–56. (Scholar)
–––, 2004. “Pleased and Afflicted: Hume on the Paradox of Tragic Pleasure,” Hume Studies, 30: 213–36. (Scholar)
–––, 2016. “A Humean Approach to the Problem of Disgust and Aesthetic Appreciation,” Essays in Philosophy, 17(1): Article 4. http://dx.doi.org/10.7710/1526-0569.1543. (Scholar)
–––, 2017. “Hume, Halos, and Rough Heroes: Moral and Aesthetic Defects in Works of Fiction,” Philosophy and Literature, 41: 91–102. (Scholar)
Dickie, George, 2003. “James Shelley on Critical Principles,” British Journal of Aesthetics, 43: 57–64. (Scholar)
Durà-Vilà, Víctor, 2014. “Courage in Art Appreciation: A Humean Perspective,” British Journal of Aesthetics, 54 (1): 77–95. (Scholar)
–––, 2015. “Shelley on Hume’s Standard of Taste and the Impossibility of Sound Disagreement among the Ideal Critics,” Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 73 (3): 341–45. (Scholar)
Foot, Philippa, 1966. “Hume on Moral Judgment,” in David F. Pears (ed.), David Hume: A Symposium, London: Macmillan, 67–76. (Scholar)
Galgut, Elisa, 2001. “The Poetry and the Pity: Hume’s Account of Tragic Pleasure,” British Journal of Aesthetics, 41: 411–24. (Scholar)
–––, 2012. “Hume’s Aesthetic Standard,” Hume Studies, 38: 183–200. (Scholar)
Gracyk, Theodore, 1994. “Rethinking Hume’s Standard of Taste,” Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 52: 168–82. (Scholar)
–––, 2011. “Delicacy in Hume’s Aesthetic Theory,” Journal of Scottish Philosophy, 9: 1–16. (Scholar)
Grant, James, 2014. “Hume, David. Theory of Beauty,” in Michael Kelly (ed.), The Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, 2^nd ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press, Volume 3: 368–72. (Scholar)
Guyer, Paul, 2005. “Beauty and Utility in Eighteenth-Century Aesthetics,” in Paul Guyer, Values of Beauty: Historical Essays in Aesthetics, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press: 110–28. (Scholar)
–––, 2005. “The Standard of Taste and the ‘Most Ardent Desire of Society’,” in Paul Guyer, Values of Beauty: Historical Essays in Aesthetics, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press: 37–74. (Scholar)
Hester, Marcus, 1979. “Hume on Principles and Perceptual Ability,” Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 37: 295–302. (Scholar)
Jones, Peter, 1976. “Hume’s Aesthetics Reassessed,” Philosophical Quarterly, 26: 48–62. (Scholar)
–––, 2009. “Hume on the Arts and ‘The Standard of Taste’: Texts and Contexts,” in David Fate Norton and Jacqueline Tylor (eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Hume, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press: 414–46. (Scholar)
Kivy, Peter, 1967. “Hume’s Standard of Taste: Breaking the Circle,” British Journal of Aesthetics, 7: 57–66. (Scholar)
–––, 1983. “Hume’s Neighbor’s Wife: An Essay in the Evolution of Hume’s Aesthetics,” British Journal of Aesthetics, 23: 195–208. (Scholar)
–––, 2011. “Remarks on the Varieties of Prejudice in Hume’s Essay on Taste,” Journal of Scottish Philosophy, 9: 111–15. (Scholar)
Korsmeyer, Carolyn, 1976. “Hume and the Foundations of Taste,” Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 35: 201–15. (Scholar)
–––, 1995. “Gendered Concepts and Hume’s Standard of Taste,” in P. Z. Brand and Carolyn Korsmeyer (eds.), Feminism and Tradition in Aesthetics, University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, pp. 49–65. (Scholar)
Kulenkampff, Jens, 1990. “The Objectivity of Taste: Hume and Kant,” Noûs, 24: 93–100. (Scholar)
Levinson, Jerrold, 2002. “Hume’s Standard of Taste: The Real Problem,” Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 60: 227–238. (Scholar)
–––, 2003. “The Real Problem Sustained: Reply to Wieand”, Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 61: 398–99. (Scholar)
MacLachlan, Christopher, 1986. “Hume and the Standard of Taste”, Hume Studies, 12: 18–38. (Scholar)
MacMillan, Claude, 1986. “Hume, Points of View and Aesthetic Judgments”, The Journal of Value Inquiry, 20: 109–23. (Scholar)
Marshall, David, 1995. “Arguing by Analogy: Hume’s Standard of Taste,” Eighteenth-Century Studies, 28: 323–43. (Scholar)
Mason, Michelle, 2001. “Moral Prejudice and Aesthetic Deformity: Rereading Hume’s ‘Of the Standard of Taste’,” Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 59: 59–71. (Scholar)
Mothersill, Mary, 1997. “In Defense of Hume and the Causal Theory of Taste,” Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 55: 312–17. (Scholar)
–––, 1984. “Hume: ‘Of the Standard of Taste’,” in Beauty Restored, Oxford: Clarendon Press, pp. 177–208. (Scholar)
–––, 2014. “Hume, David. ‘Of the Standard of Taste,’” in Michael Kelly (ed.), The Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, 2^nd ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press, Volume 3: 364–68. (Scholar)
Neill, Alex, 1998. “‘An Unaccountable Pleasure’: Hume on Tragedy and the Passions,” Hume Studies, 24: 335–354. (Scholar)
–––, 1992. “Yanal and Others on Hume on Tragedy,” Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 50: 151–154. (Scholar)
–––, 1999. “Hume’s ‘Singular Phænomenon’,” British Journal of Aesthetics, 39: 112–125. (Scholar)
Noxon, James, 1961. “Hume’s Opinion of Critics,” Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 20: 157–62. (Scholar)
Osborne, Harold, 1967. “Hume’s Standard and the Diversity of Aesthetic Taste,” British Journal of Aesthetics, 7: 50–56. (Scholar)
Perricone, Christopher, 1995. “The Body and Hume’s Standard of Taste,” Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 53: 371–8. (Scholar)
Ribeiro, Brian, 2007. “Hume’s Standard of Taste and the de gustibus Sceptic,” British Journal of Aesthetics, 47: 16–28. (Scholar)
Rose, Mary Carman, 1976. “The Importance of Hume in the History of Western Aesthetics,” British Journal of Aesthetics, 16: 218–29. (Scholar)
Ross, Stephanie, 2008. “Humean Critics: Real or Ideal?,” British Journal of Aesthetics, 48: 20–28. (Scholar)
Saccamano, Neil, 2011. “Aesthetically Non-Dwelling: Sympathy, Property, and the House of Beauty in Hume’s Treatise,” Journal of Scottish Philosophy, 9: 37–58. (Scholar)
Sayre-McCord, Geoffrey, 1994. “On Why Hume’s ‘General Point of View’ isn’t Ideal – and Shouldn’t Be,” Social Philosophy and Policy, 11: 202–28. (Scholar)
Schier, Flint, 1986–87. “Hume and the Aesthetics of Agency,” Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, 87: 121–35. (Scholar)
Shelley, James, 1994. “Hume’s Double Standard of Taste,” Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 52: 437–45. (Scholar)
–––, 1998. “Hume and the Nature of ‘Taste’,” Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 56: 29–38. (Scholar)
–––, 2002. “The Character and Role of Principles in the Evaluation of Art,” British Journal of Aesthetics, 42; 37–51. (Scholar)
–––, 2004. “Hume’s Principles of Taste: A Reply to Dickie,” British Journal of Aesthetics, 44: 84–89. (Scholar)
–––, 2011. “Hume and the Value of the Beautiful,” British Journal of Aesthetics, 51: 213–22. (Scholar)
–––, 2013. “Hume and the Verdict of True Judges,” Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 71 (2): 145–53. (Scholar)
–––, 2015. “When True Judges Differ: Reply to Durà-Vilà,” Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 73 (3): 345–48. (Scholar)
Shiner, Roger A., 1996. “Hume and the Causal Theory of Taste,” Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 54: 237–49. (Scholar)
Shusterman, Richard, 1989. “Of the Scandal of Taste: Social Privilege as Nature in the Aesthetic Theories of Hume and Kant,” Philosophical Forum, 20: 211–29. (Scholar)
Siebert, Donald T., 1989. “The Sentimental Sublime in Hume’s History of England,” Review of English Studies New Series, 40: 352–72. (Scholar)
Stradella, Alessandra, 2012. “The Fiction of the Standard of Taste: David Hume on the Social Constitution of Beauty,” The Journal of Aesthetic Education, 46 (4): 32–47. (Scholar)
Sverdlik, Steven, 1986. “Hume’s Key and Aesthetic Rationality,” Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 45: 69–76. (Scholar)
Taylor, Jacqueline, 2008. “Hume on Beauty and Virtue,” in Elisabeth Radcliffe (ed.), A Companion to Hume, Oxford: Blackwell, 273–92. (Scholar)
Townsend, Dabney, 2001. Hume’s Aesthetic Theory: Taste and Sentiment, London: Routledge. (Scholar)
–––, 2013. “Hume’s Aesthetic Move: The Legitimization of Sentiment.” The European Legacy: Toward New Paradigms, 18 (5): 552–562. (Scholar)
Wieand, Jeffrey, 1984. “Hume’s Two Standards of Taste,” Philosophical Quarterly, 34: 129–42. (Scholar)
–––, 2003. “Hume’s Real Problem,” Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 61: 395–98. (Scholar)
Williams, Christopher, 2007. “Some Questions in Hume’s Aesthetics,” Philosophy Compass, 2: 157–69. (Scholar)
Winegar, Reed, 2011. “Good Sense, Art, and Morality in Hume’s ‘Standard of Taste,’” Journal of Scottish Philosophy, 9: 17–35. (Scholar)
Yanal, Robert J., 1991. “Hume and Others on the Paradox of Tragedy,” Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 49: 75–76. (Scholar)
Zangwill, Nick, 2001. “Hume, Taste, and Teleology,” in The Metaphysics of Beauty, Ithaca: Cornell University Press: 149–65. (Scholar)

Related Works on Hume and His Context

Addison, Joseph, and Steele, Richard, 1879. The Spectator, Alexander Chalmers (ed.), New York: D. Appleton. (Scholar)
Brunius, Teddy, 1952. David Hume on Criticism, Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell. (Scholar)
Coleman, Francis X. J., 1971. The Aesthetic Thought of the French Enlightenment, Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press. (Scholar)
Costelloe, Timothy, 2013. The British Aesthetic Tradition: From Shaftesbury to Wittgenstein, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
Dickie, George, 1996. The Century of Taste, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
DuBos, Jean Baptiste, 1748. Critical Reflections on Poetry, Painting, and Music, 3 vols. Translated by Thomas Nugent. London: John Nourse. Reprint, New York: AMS Press, 1978. (Scholar)
Duncan, Elmer H., 1970. “The Ideal Aesthetic Observer: a Second Look”, Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 29: 47–52. (Scholar)
Guyer, Paul, 2014. A History of Modern Aesthetics (Vol. 1: The Eighteenth Century), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
Hipple, Walter John Jr., 1967. The Beautiful, the Sublime, and the Picturesque in Eighteenth Century Aesthetic Theory, Carbondale, IL: The Southern Illinois University Press. (Scholar)
Jones, Peter, 1982. Hume’s Sentiments: Their Ciceronian and French Context, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. (Scholar)
Kivy, Peter, 2003. The Seventh Sense: Francis Hutcheson & Eighteenth-Century British Aesthetics, 2^nd ed., Oxford: Clarendon Press. (Scholar)
–––, 2016. “Hume’s Taste and the Rationalist Critique,” in Paul Russell (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Hume, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 531–545. (Scholar)
Savile, Anthony, 1982. The Test of Time: An Essay in Philosophical Aesthetics, Oxford: Clarendon Press. (Scholar)
–––, 1988. Aesthetic Reconstructions: The Seminal Writings of Lessing, Kant, and Schiller, Oxford: Basil Blackwell. (Scholar)
Shaftesbury (Anthony Ashley-Cooper, Third Earl of Shaftesbury), 1999. Characteristics of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times (2 volumes), Philip Ayres (ed.), Oxford: Clarendon Press. (Scholar)
Shelley, James, 2001. “Empiricism: Hutcheson and Hume,” in Berys Gaut and Dominic M. Lopes (eds.), Routledge Companion to Aesthetics, 3^rd edition, London and New York: Routledge: 36–45. (Scholar)
Townsend, Dabney, 1987. “From Shaftesbury to Kant: The Development of the Concept of Aesthetic Experience,” Journal of the History of Ideas, 48: 287–305. (Scholar)
–––, 2003. “Art and the Aesthetic: Hume, Kant, and the Essence of Art,” in Stephen Davies and Ananta Ch. Sukla (eds.), Art and Essences, Westport, CT: Praeger, 75–93. (Scholar)

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