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David Hume: Bicentenary Papers (review)

David Hume: Bicentenary Papers (review) David Hume: Bicentenary Papers, edited by G. P. Morice. Edinburgh University Press and University of Texas Press, 1977. viii + 232 pp. »8.00 ($10.95). Anyone who attended the superbly organized Hume bicentenary week in Edinburgh in 1976 will be glad to have this commemorative volume. It comes with the usual printed elegance, and inflated blurb, of an Edinburgh Press production, but with less than their customary typographical accuracy. It is more substantial than the 1962 commemora- tive volume from the same source (for the 250th anniversary of Hume's birth) , but two of the contributors, Árdal and Davie, are the same. Seven of the eight plenary session addresses take up the first half of the book and twelve from over 50 short seminar papers occupy the remainder; R. J. Butler's address was withdrawn after setting, so that the pagination is awry in the cross-references in some of the footnotes of the present volume. Quite a number of the missing seminar papers have been appearing meanwhile in journals elsewhere, where they can be traced through the annual bibliographies in Hume Studies. One attraction of the conference was the opportunity provided by the exhibitions and receptions to read and hear http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Hume Studies Hume Society

David Hume: Bicentenary Papers (review)

Stewart, M. A. (Michael Alexander)
Hume Studies , Volume 7 (1) – Jan 26, 1981
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David Hume: Bicentenary Papers, edited by G. P. Morice. Edinburgh University Press and University of Texas Press, 1977. viii + 232 pp. »8.00 ($10.95). Anyone who attended the superbly organized Hume bicentenary week in Edinburgh in 1976 will be glad to have this commemorative volume. It comes with the usual printed elegance, and inflated blurb, of an Edinburgh Press production, but with less than their customary typographical accuracy. It is more substantial than the 1962 commemora- tive volume from the same source (for the 250th anniversary of Hume's birth) , but two of the contributors, Árdal and Davie, are the same. Seven of the eight plenary session addresses take up the first half of the book and twelve from over 50 short seminar papers occupy the remainder; R. J. Butler's address was withdrawn after setting, so that the pagination is awry in the cross-references in some of the footnotes of the present volume. Quite a number of the missing seminar papers have been appearing meanwhile in journals elsewhere, where they can be traced through the annual bibliographies in Hume Studies. One attraction of the conference was the opportunity provided by the exhibitions and receptions to read and hear

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