This book demonstrates how Hume's moral philosophy comports with recent work from the empirical sciences and moral psychology. This collection corrects an important oversight in contemporary interdisciplinary research in value theory.

Philip A. Reed is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Canisius College, USA where he also codirects the Ethics and Justice Programs. His main areas of interest are in ethics, political philosophy, and moral psychology. His articles on Hume's moral psychology appear in such places as History of Philosophy Quarterly, Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, and Canadian Journal of Philosophy. He has also published articles in Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, and Christian Bioethics.

Rico Vitz is Professor and Chair of the Department of Philosophy at Azusa Pacific University, USA and serves as the Executive Vice President-Treasurer of the Hume Society. He is the author of Reforming the Art of Living: Nature, Virtue, and Religion in Descartes's Epistemology, co-editor of The Ethics of Belief: Individual and Social, and the editor of Turning East: Contemporary Philosophers and the Ancient Christian Faith.

Introduction: Hume's Moral Philosophy and Contemporary Psychology: An Overview

Philip A. Reed

1. Beyond the "Disease of the Learned": Hume on Passional Disorders

Margaret Watkins

2. Hume on the Rarity of Virtue

Philip A. Reed

3. Spontaneity, Intuition, and Humean Virtue

Erin Frykholm

4. Character, Culture, and Humean Virtue Ethics: Insights from Situationism and Confucianism

Rico Vitz

5. Empahty, Autism, and Hume

Katharina Paxman Renick

6. Cultivating Empathic Concern and Altruistic Motivation: Insights from Hume and Batson

Annette Pierdziwol

7. Preserving Practicality: In Defense of Hume's Sympathy-Based Ethics

Lorenzo Greco

8. Hume, Bloom, and Moral Inclusion

Anne Jacobson

9. Empathy, Interdependency, and Morality: Building from Hume's Account

Lorraine Besser

10. The Philosophical Power of Hume's Notion of Love

Christine Swanton

11. Hume on the Methods and Limits of the Science of Human Nature

Saul Traiger

12. Hume on Moral Motivation

Michael Gill

13. Passionate Regulation and the Practicality of Reason

Elizabeth Radcliffe

14. Hume on Affective Leadership

Eric Schliesser

Conclusion: Hume's Moral Philosophy and Contemporary Psychology: Future Directions

Rico Vitz