Death and Character

Further Reflections on Hume

Annette C. Baier

    • Preface
    • List of Abbreviations

      Part I. Easy and Obvious

    1. Acting in Character
    2. Impersonation, the Very Idea
    3. Hume’s Excellent Hypocrites
    4. Hume’s Treatment of Oliver Cromwell
    5. Hume and the Conformity of Bishop Tunstal
    6. Hume’s Deathbed Reading: A Tale of Three Letters

      7. Part II. More Difficult and Abstruse

    7. Hume’s Impressions and His Other Metaphors
    8. The Life and Mortality of the Mind
    9. Hume’s Labyrinth
    10. A Voice, as from the Next Room
    11. The Energy of the Cause
    12. Hume’s Post-Impressionism
    • Conclusion: Hume’s Curriculum Vitae: His “Own Life,” Written by Himself
    • Index
  • Cover: Death and Character
  • A photo of the author

photo by Chris Sullivan

Annette C. Baier is Distinguished Service Professor of Philosophy Emerita at the University of Pittsburgh.