Paul Russell
Biographic Data
| ID | 3597464 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paul Russell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paul |
| FAMILY NAME | Russell |
| SIGNATURE | RUSSELL P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of British Columbia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4197-9441 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 54 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 30 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 48 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 6 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Celts: A Modern History
Wörter–Texte–Schreiberhände: Sprachliche und kulturelle Wechselbeziehungen zwischen fränkischem Reich, Irland und Britannien im Frühmittelalter / Words–Texts–Scribal Hands: Linguistic and Cultural Int…
Oxford Medieval Texts: Gerald of Wales: On the Deeds of Gerald (De Gestis Giraldi): On the Deeds of Gerald (De Gestis Giraldi)
Brittany and the Atlantic Archipelago, 450–1200
How did Brittany get its name and its British-Celtic language in the centuries after the collapse of the Western Roman Empire? Beginning in the ninth century, scholars have proposed a succession of theories about Breton origins, influenced by the changing relationships between Brittany, its Continental neighbours, and the 'Atlantic Archipelago' during and after the Viking age and the Norman Conquest. However, due to limited records, the history o…
Brittany and the Atlantic Archipelago, 450-1200: Contact, Myth and History
The Limits of Free Will: Replies to Bennett, Smith and Wallace
Responsibility Skepticism and Strawson’s Naturalism
Distinctions, foundations and steps: The metaphors of the grades of comparison in medieval Latin, Irish and Welsh grammatical texts
While the ‘grades’ of comparison is a familiar term, it is argued in this paper that a more thorough-going appreciation of a metaphor which originally had to do with steps allows us better to understand the development of the terminology of the grades of comparison as it moved from the Latin grammarians, especially Donatus and the commentators on his original work, into the medieval vernacular Irish and Welsh grammars. The architectural basis of …
Prince Henry the Navigator
The Prince Henry who reveals the workings of his mind is about as far away as possible from the nineteenth-century concept of him as humanist and scientist. Gomes Eannes de Zurara's suggestion that astrological prediction influenced Prince Henry's career more than anything else usually gets scant attention from students of his life. Mr. E. W. Bovill discounts the sincerity of the claims of Prince Henry and his seamen that the discovery of Guinea …
Ethics Beyond the Limits: New Essays on Bernard Williams’ Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy
Bernard Williams’ Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy is widely regarded as one of the most important works of moral philosophy in the last fifty years. Williams’s powerful sceptical critique of the morality system sent shockwaves through philosophy, the implications of which are still being reckoned with thirty years later. In this outstanding collection of new essays, fourteen internationally-recognised philosophers examine the enduring contrib…
Hume’s optimism and Williams’s pessimism
The most important and influential contribution that Williams made to ethics is his critique of “the morality system”. It is presented, most explicitly, in Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy. A final feature of the morality system that needs highlighting is its aspiration for some view of human life and ethical life in particular that reveals humans to be “in harmony with their world”. The morality system is strongly oriented towards this optimi…
Hume's Critique Of Religion: ‘Sick Men's Dreams’
The first three chapters of Hume's Critique of Religion (hereafter HCR) present a useful account of Hume's reputation among his own contemporaries: a description of the various interpretations now on offer among our own contemporaries, a review of the sort of historical considerations that are relevant to a proper grasp of Hume's intentions (especially in relation to religious issues), and a survey of the range and scope of Hume's writings on thi…
Hume's Critique Of Religion: ‘Sick Men's Dreams’
Conversation and Responsibility
Michael McKenna's Conversation and Responsibility is an ambitious and impressive statement of a new theory of moral responsibility. McKenna's approach builds upon the strategy advanced in P. F. Strawson's (2013 [1962]) enormously influential “Freedom and Resentment.” The account advanced aims to provide Strawson's theory with the sort of detail that is required to fill significant gaps and respond to a wide range of criticisms and objections that…
Development and validation of the Vellore Occupational Therapy Evaluation Scale to assess functioning in people with mental illness
BACKGROUND: Available occupational therapy assessment scales focus on specific areas of functioning. There is a need for comprehensive evaluation of diverse aspects of functioning in people with mental illness. AIM: To develop a comprehensive assessment scale to evaluate diverse aspects of functioning among people with mental illness and to assess its validity and reliability. METHODS: Available instruments, which evaluate diverse aspects of func…
Hume on Is and Ought
Hume contends that you can’t get an ought from an is. Searle professed to prove otherwise, deriving a conclusion about obligations from premises about promises. Since can’t derive a substantive ought from an is by logic alone, Searle is best construed as claiming that there are analytic bridge principles linking premises about promises to conclusions about obligations. But we can no more derive a moral obligation to pay up from the fact that a pr…
Hume’s Political Philosophy
Although David Hume never produced a single comprehensive work that encapsulated his views on politics, his various writings address a broad range of topics of relevance to political philosophy. He critiques the social contract theory of Hobbes and Locke, and he offers an alternative, evolutionary account of the origins of government. Hume sees all governments as the result of a struggle between authority and liberty, with the best of them achiev…
The Oxford Handbook of Hume
David Hume (1711–1776) is widely regarded as the greatest and most influential of the English-speaking philosophers. The range of his contributions is considerable: covering issues of metaphysics and epistemology, mind and emotion, morality and politics, history, economics, and religion. Although there is little debate about the importance and significance of Hume’s philosophical contributions, there is, nevertheless, considerable debate about th…
An Introduction to the Celtic Languages
This text provides a single-volume, single-author general introduction to the Celtic languages.The first half of the book considers the historical background of the language group as a whole. There follows a discussion of the two main sub-groups of Celtic, Goidelic (comprising Irish, Scottish, Gaelic and Manx) and Brittonic (Welsh, Cornish and Breton) together with a detailed survey of one representative from each group, Irish and Welsh.The secon…
Introduction to the Celtic Languages
Hume and the Molyneux Problem
How would Hume have addressed William Molyneux’s question to Locke: would a man born blind but able to distinguish between a sphere and cube by touch, immediately on acquiring sight, distinguish these figures visually? As a central issue in eighteenth-century epistemology and psychology, one would expect Hume to have dealt with it in his Treatise and, like Locke and Berkeley, answered in the negative. After offering a possible reason for Hume’s n…
Hume and the Problem of Causation
This chapter traces Hume’s search for the impression-source of the idea of necessary connection through Book 1 of the Treatise . It then sketches and evaluates the main interpretative positions concerning Hume’s account of causation. These positions characterize Hume either as a regularity theorist who thinks that causation is merely a matter of temporal priority, contiguity, and constant conjunction, a projectivist who takes causal talk to have …
Moral Sense and the Foundations of Responsibility
This article discusses another important class of new compatibilist theories of agency and responsibility, frequently referred to as reactive attitude theories. Such theories have their roots in another seminal essay of modern free-will debates, P. F. Strawson's “Freedom and Resentment” (1962). This article disentangles three strands of Strawson's argument—rationalist, naturalist, and pragmatic. It also considers other recent reactive attitude vi…
Multilingualism in the Graeco-Roman Worlds
Through words and images employed both by individuals and by a range of communities across the Graeco-Roman worlds, this book explores the complexity of multilingual representations of identity. Starting with the advent of literacy in the Mediterranean, it encompasses not just the Greek and Roman empires but also the transformation of the Graeco-Roman world under Islam and within the medieval mind. By treating a range of materials, contexts, lang…
Culhwch’s weaponry: Penntireg and Enilleg
L’armement de Culhwch : Penntireg et Ennilleg Dans le passage de Culhwch ag Olwen qui montre Culhwch allant à cheval à la cour d’Arthur, les deux manuscrits, le Livre Blanc et le Livre Rouge, emploient l’expression gleif penntirec pour désigner son arme. Une correction proposée par Thomas Jones s’est imposée maintenant comme la norme : elle consiste à corriger penntirec en ennillec, et à considérer que gleif était au départ une glose à ennillec q…
Freedom and Moral Sentiment: Hume's Way of Naturalizing Responsibility
In observing that studies of Hume's general strategy have tended to overlook his naturalistic concerns, Paul Russell proposes that closer scrutiny of Hume's work demonstrates the importance of these concerns and their contemporary resonance
II. Locke on Express and Tacit Consent: Misinterpretations and Inconsistencies
Hume and the Problem of Causation
This chapter traces Hume’s search for the impression-source of the idea of necessary connection through Book 1 of the Treatise . It then sketches and evaluates the main interpretative positions concerning Hume’s account of causation. These positions characterize Hume either as a regularity theorist who thinks that causation is merely a matter of temporal priority, contiguity, and constant conjunction, a projectivist who takes causal talk to have …
Hume's Treatise and Hobbes's the Elements of Law
in that age was more celebrated both at home and abroad, than Hobbes: In our time
Hume's Treatise and Hobbes's the Elements of Law
in that age was more celebrated both at home and abroad, than Hobbes: In our time
II. Locke on Express and Tacit Consent: Misinterpretations and Inconsistencies
Preverbs, Prepositions and Adverbs: Sigmatic and Asigmatic
The suffix -āko- in Continental Celtic
Pour connaître le mieux possible les différents types de dérivés en -āko- en celtique continental, l’auteur pense qu’il faut tenir compte non seulement des noms de lieux gaulois — qui offrent la documentation la plus abondante — mais aussi des noms de personnes et de tribus, et du matériel provenant d’autres régions que la Gaule. Il discute des problèmes touchant la celticité des formes utilisées. Puis les documents sont passés en revue région pa…
Skepticism and Natural Religion in Hume's Treatise
The wise in every age conclude, What Pyrrho taught and Hume
Some neglected sources for middle Welsh phonology
Quelques sources jusque ici négligées pour la phonologie du Moyen-Gallois. L’article met en valeur l’étude des noms propres gallois dans les rôles de la fin du XIIIe et du début du XIVe s., comme la Survey of the Honour of Denbigh, et dans les listes de subsides, comme le Merioneth Lay Subsidy Roll, et la contribution que ces documents peuvent fournir à notre connaissance de la phonologie du moyen-gallois. Sont discutés à la fois les avantages, i…
Epigram, Pantheists, and Freethought in Hume's Treatise: A Study in Esoteric Communication
If men ... are forbid to speak -at all upon such subjects, or if they find it really dangerous to do so, they will then redouble their disguise
Notes on words in early Irish glossaries
Note sur trois mots tirés des glossaires irlandais anciens. 1. Analyse de íarus par le préverbe íar suivi d’un pronom suffixé, extrait d’une forme verbale. Conséquences de cette interprétation pour des mots similaires, comme forthus etc. 2. Edition de la version courte de la notice imbas for-osnai, dans le glossaire Dúil Dromma Cetta (DDC) ; l’auteur démontre que c’est la source de la version amplifiée transmise par le Glossaire de Cormac. 3. Exa…
Freedom and Moral Sentiment: Hume's Way of Naturalizing Responsibility
In observing that studies of Hume's general strategy have tended to overlook his naturalistic concerns, Paul Russell proposes that closer scrutiny of Hume's work demonstrates the importance of these concerns and their contemporary resonance
Dúil Dromma Cetta and Cormac’s Glossary
Dùil Dromna Ceta et le Glossaire de Cormac Le glossaire du Dùil Dromna Ceta révèle des étapes dans le développement des articles qui sont antérieures aux articles tels qu’ils se trouvent dans le glossaire de Cormac. C’est donc un témoin privilégié pour éclairer l’élaboration de ce dernier glossaire
Freedom and Moral Sentiment: Hume's way of Naturalizing Responsibility
An Introduction to the Celtic Languages
Part 1 The historical background to the Celtic languages: Celtic as an Indo-European language continental Celtic insular Celtic the distinctive features of Celtic languages the distinctive features of Goidelic and Brittonic the inter-relationship of the Celtic languages the Italo-Celtic hypothesis. Part 2 The Goidelic languages: the sources general features Scottish Gaelic and Manx developments. Part 3 Irish: types of Irish phonology the nominal …
Freedom and Moral Sentiment: Hume's Way of Naturalizing Moral Responsibility
BLFirst study devoted entirely to Hume's influential views on freedom and responsibility David Hume is generally credited with the classic statement of the 'compatibilist' position in the free will dispute. It is here argued that Hume's views on this subject, although largely influential, have nevertheless been seriously misrepresented. Classical readings have entirely overlooked Hume's naturalistic concerns and commitments, those very aspects of…
Causation, Compulsion, and Compatibilism
Hume claims, famously, that causes do not compel their effects, and so it does not follow that if an action was caused it was compelled (and thus unfree). We get confused on this issue, according to Hume, because we have a natural tendency to suppose that we have some idea of necessity as it exists in the material world beyond that of constant conjunction and the accompanying inference of the mind. Much of what Hume says about the “verbal” nature…
Responsibility Naturalized: A Qualified Defence of Hume
This chapter provides a qualified defense of Hume's naturalistic approach to the problem of free will and moral responsibility. A particularly important theme is the contrast between Hume's naturalistic approach and the “rationalistic” approach associated with classical compatibilism. Whereas the rationalistic approach proceeds as an a priori, conceptual investigation into the nature and conditions of moral responsibility, the naturalistic approa…
Retributive Feeling and the Utility of Punishment
My primary objective in this chapter is to articulate Hume's theory of punishment. I argue that Hume is committed to a “mixed” or teleological‐retributivist account of punishment. The contemporary interest of Hume's theory of punishment, I maintain, rests with his effort to develop his account of punishment on the foundations of his naturalistic theory of moral responsibility. The discussion provided compares and contrasts Hume's views on this su…
The Involuntary Nature of Moral Character
Hume claims that we are responsible for those qualities of mind or character that affect others and ourselves in pleasurable or painful ways. Insofar as our action and deportment express our character, to that extent we are accountable for it. This brings us to the question of the extent to which our traits of character are shaped and conditioned by our own choices and willings. Hume maintains that our ability to shape or control our moral charac…
Minding the Matter of Necessity: A Paradox Regarding Causation
Hume's views on the subject of free will rest on his specific interpretation of the nature of causation and necessity. In this chapter, I provide an interpretation of Hume's “two definitions” of causation. I argue that the two definitions of causation must be interpreted in terms of Hume's fundamental ontological distinction between perceptions and (material) objects. Central to Hume's position on this subject is the claim that, while there is a …
Pride, Fortune, and the Godless Man
An adequate theory of moral responsibility must describe to what extent the virtuous can legitimately and reasonably expect some measure of happiness as their due reward (in this life or the next). Hume's approach to these issues downplays the importance of a system of legal rewards and punishments. Furthermore, Hume firmly rejects any system of divine rewards and punishments in a future state. His alternative approach to these matters does, howe…
The Content and Objects of Moral Sentiment
In this chapter, I deal with a number of difficulties involved in Hume's account of the nature and content of moral sentiment, as implied by his general theory of emotion. I argue that moral sentiment should be understood, not in terms of certain peculiar pleasant or painful feelings, but rather in terms of the relevant cognitive–evaluative features involved. Related to this problem, I also consider Hume's account of the objects of moral sentimen…
Hume's Naturalism and Strawson's Reconciling Project
The best way to reveal the contemporary relevance and interest of the naturalistic interpretation of Hume's “reconciling project” is to show the striking affinities between it and P. F. Strawson's influential views on this subject. Whereas the classical interpretation presents Hume as an obvious and notable target of Strawson's criticisms, the naturalistic interpretation presents Hume as anticipating the general strategy that Strawson advances in…
Action, Character, and Excuses
Hume's understanding of how moral sentiment is aroused commits him to some puzzling and controversial views about responsibility and excusing considerations. More specifically, Hume maintains that people are responsible for actions only insofar as they reveal enduring qualities of mind or character. He also holds that agents cannot be held responsible for actions that were produced by qualities of mind that they no longer possess. In this chapter…
Will, Intention, Feeling: The Indications of Character
In Hume's account, an accurate interpretation of action requires that we carefully identify the motives and intentions that caused it. I examine these aspects of Hume's account of action and the way that they relate to his theory of responsibility. I am especially concerned about explaining the role of will and intention in this sphere and showing that according to Hume a person can be held responsible for aspects of character that are manifested…
The Naturalism of Hume's “Reconciling Project”
In this chapter, I provide a “naturalistic” interpretation of Hume's “reconciling project.” According to Hume, to hold a person responsible is to view them as the object of a moral sentiment, which is a calm form of love or hate (which are indirect passions). One of the major objectives of his “science of man” was to discover under what circumstances people are felt to be responsible and to describe the “regular mechanism” that produces these pas…
Logic, “Liberty”, and the Metaphysics of Responsibility
This chapter presents a critical discussion of the classical interpretation of Hume's compatibilist strategy. It argues, in particular, that the classical interpretation fails to provide a satisfactory account of why Hume held that his specific views about the nature of “necessity” puts the free will controversy in a “new light.” This leads to the conclusion that there is something wrong with the classical interpretation and its heavy emphasis on…
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