Reading List:
Primary sources:
Hume, David (1738/2000) A Treatise of Human Nature (Norton, David F. and Norton, Mary J., eds) (Oxford: Oxford University Press).
Smith, Adam (1759/1984) The Theory of Moral Sentiments (D.D. Raphael and A.L. Macfie, eds) (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund).
Students are strongly encouraged to provide themselves with these books – I mean real books, not electronic books.
Secondary literature:
Carrasco, Maria Alejandra (2004) ‘Adam Smith’s Reconstruction of Practical Reason’. The Review of Metaphysics 58, 81-116.
Carrasco, Maria Alejandra (2011) ‘From Psychology to moral normativity’. The Adam Smith Review 6, 9-29.
Carrasco, Maria Alejandra (2015) ‘Morality, Impartiality and Due Partialities’. In Journal of Value Inquiry.
Cohen, Rachel (2008) Hume’s Morality. Feeling and Fabrication. Oxford: OUP.
Darwall, Stephen (2004) ‘Equal Dignity in Adam Smith’, The Adam Smith Review I: 129–34.
Darwall, Stephen (2004). ‘Respect and the Second-Person Standpoint’. Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association 78/2: 43-59.
Fleischacker, Sam (2012) ‘Sympathy in Hume and Smith: A Contrast, Critique, and Reconstruction’. In: Christel Fricke und Dagfinn Føllesdal (eds) Intersubjectivity and Objectivity in Adam Smith and Edmund Husserl. (Frankfurt et. al: Ontos Verlag), 273-311.
Forman-Barzilai, F. (2010) Adam Smith and the Circles of Sympathy. Cosmopolitanism and Moral Theory, Cambridge: CUP.
Fricke, Christel (2010) Adam Smith and ‘the Most Sacred Rules of Justice’ In: The Adam Smith Review 6, 46-74.
Fricke, Christel (2011) ‘Adam Smith: The Sympathetic Process and the Origin and Function of Conscience.’ In: Christopher Berry, Maria Pia Paganelli, Craig Smith (eds) The Oxford Handbook of Adam Smith. (Oxford: OUP), 177-200.
Fricke, Christel (2012) ‘Overcoming Disagreement – Adam Smith and Edmund Husserl on Strategies of Justifying Descriptive and Evaluative Judgments’. In: Christel Fricke und Dagfinn Føllesdal (eds) Intersubjectivity and Objectivity in Adam Smith and Edmund Husserl. (Frankfurt et. Al: Ontos Verlag), 171-242.
Griswold, Charles (1999) Adam Smith and the Virtues of Enlightenment. Cambridge: CUP.
Lindgren, R.J. (1973) The Social Philosophy of Adam Smith. Den Hag: Martinus Nijhoff.
Mackie, J.L. (1980) Hume’s Moral Theory. London: Routledge and Kegan.
Penelhum, Terence (1992) David Hume. An Introduction to his Philosophy. West Lafayette/Indiana: Purdue University Press.
Spencer J. Pack, Eric Schliesser (2006) ‘Smith’s Humean Criticism of Hume’s Account of the Origin of Justice’. Journal of the History of Philosophy 44/1, 47-63.
Walker, Margaret Urban (1991) ‘Partial Consideration’. Ethics 101/4 , 758-774.
Walker, Margaret Urban (1998) ‘Ineluctable Feelings and Moral Recognition’. Midwest Studies in Philosophy XXII, 62-81.