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Books:

The Sceptical Realism of David Hume, Manchester University Press and University of Minnesota Press, 1983.

Hume and Hume's Connexions, co-edited with M.A. Stewart, Edinburgh University Press and Pennsylvania State University Press, 1994.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0271014237/qid=1122651709/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/102-5120375-2910558

Psyche and Soma: Physicians and Metaphysicians on the Mind-Body Problem from Antiquity to Enlightenment, eds. John P. Wright and Paul Potter (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000); reprinted and issued in paperback, 2002
http://www.oup.co.uk/isbn/0-19-925674-8

John Locke’s An Essay Concerning Human Understanding In Focus, eds. Gary Fuller, Robert Stecker, John P. Wright (London: Routledge Press, 2000)


David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature, abridged and edited by John P. Wright, Robert Stecker and Gary Fuller (London: Everyman, 2003)

http://www.orionbooks.co.uk/MP-24268/A-Treatise-of-Human-Nature.htm

Articles in Journals and Chapters in Books (see the end of the list for the most recent):

"Hysteria and Mechanical Man", Journal of the History of Ideas, 41 (1980), pp. 233-47.

"Matter, Mind and Active Principles in 18th-century British Physiology", Man and Nature, IV (1985), pp. 17-27.

"Hume's Academic Scepticism: A Reappraisal of his Philosophy of Human Understanding", Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 16 (1986), pp. 407-36.

"Hume vs. Reid on Ideas: The Significance of the New Hume Letter", Mind, 96 (1987), pp. 392-98.

"Association, Madness and the Measures of Probability in Locke and Hume", in ed. Christopher Fox, Psychology and Literature in the Eighteenth Century (New York: AMS Press, 1987) pp. 103-28.

"Ignorance and Evidence in Current Hume Scholarship", Dialogue 26 (1987), pp. 731-33.

"Metaphysics and Physiology: Mind, Body and the Animal Economy in 18th-Century Scotland, Studies in the Philosophy of the Scottish Enlightenment , ed. M.A. Stewart (Oxford: O.U.P. 1990), pp. 251-301.

"Boerhaave on Minds, Human Beings and Mental Disease", Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, Vol. 20 (1990), pp. 289-302.

"Hysteria and Mechanical Man", reprinted in Philosophy, Religion and Science in the 17th and 18th Centuries, ed. John Yolton, University of Rochester Press, 1990, pp.459-73.

"Hume's Rejection of the Theory of Ideas", History of Philosophy Quarterly 8 (1991), pp. 149-62.

"Hume's Criticism of Malebranche's Theory of Causation: a lesson in the historiography of philosophy", ed. Stuart Brown, Malebranche and his Critics (Assen/Maastrict: Van Gorcum, 1991), pp. 116-130.

"Locke, Willis and the Seventeenth-Century Epicurean Soul", ed. Margaret Osler, Atoms, Pneuma, and Tranquillity: Epicurean and Stoic Themes in European Thought (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991), pp. 239-258.

"The Embodied Soul in Late Seventeenth-Century French Physiology", Canadian Bulletin for the History of Medicine, 8 (1991), pp. 21-42.

Articles on "Free Will", "Belief", "Imagination", "Natural Religion", "Necessity", "Science of Man" for The Blackwell Companion to the Enlightenment, ed. John Yolton and others (Basil Blackwell, 1991).

Articles on Cartesianism, Determinism, Dualism, Hume, Hutcheson, Leibniz, Locke, Malebranche, Mind-Body Relationship, Rationalism, Reason, Scepticism for A Dictionary of Eighteenth Century World History, ed. Jeremy Black and Roy Porter (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1994).

"Butler and Hume on Habit and Moral Character", in Hume and Hume's Connexions, ed. M.A. Stewart and John Wright (Edinburgh University Press and Pennsylvania State University Press, 1994), pp. 105-118.

"Lo schiavo delle passioni: morale e religione in Hume" , Revista di Filosofia, vol. LXXXVI, no. 1, April 1995, pp. 81-106.

"Hume's Academic Scepticism: A Reappraisal of his Philosophy of Human Understanding", reprinted in David Hume: Critical Assessments, ed. Stanley Tweyman, Vol. 2 (London: Routledge, 1995)

Critical Review of Wayne Waxman's Hume's Theory of Consciousness (Cambridge, 1994), Hume Studies, Vol. XXI, no. 2, November 1995, pp. 344-350.

"Hume, Descartes and the Materiality of the Soul", The Philosophical Canon in the 17th and 18th Centuries, ed. G.A.J. Rogers, and Sylvana Tomaselli (Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 1996), pp. 175-90.

"Materialismo e anima vitale alle meta' del XVIII secolo. Il pensiero medico", ed. Antonio Santucci, L'eta' dei Lumi: Saggi sulla cultura settecentesca (Bologna: Mulino, 1998), pp. 143-57.

Articles on "George Cheyne", "William Cullen", "Browne Langrish", "Richard Mead", "William Porterfield", "Nicholas Robinson", and "Robert Whytt" for Dictionary of Eighteenth-Century British Philosophers, eds. J.V. Price and J.W. Yolton (Bristol: Thommes, 1999).

"Substance vs. Function Dualism: the Role of Medical Theorists in an Eighteenth-century Philosophical Debate", in John P. Wright and Paul Potter eds, Psyche and Soma: Physicians and Metaphsicians in the History of Thought (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000), pp.237-54.

"Perrault’s criticisms of the Cartesian Theory of the Soul", in Descartes’ Philosophy of Science, eds. Stephen Gaukroger, John Schuster and John Sutton (London: Routledge Press, 2000) pp. 680-96)

"Materialism and the Life Soul in Eighteenth-Century Scotland", The Scottish Enlightenment: Essays in Re-interpretation, ed. Paul Wood (Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2000), pp. 177-99.

"Hume's Causal Realism: Recovering a traditional Interpretation", in Rupert Read and Ken Richman eds., The New Hume: Interpretations for and Against Realist Readings of Hume on Causation (London: Routledge, 2000), pp. 88-99.

"Due culture mediche dell’Illuminismo: epicurei pagani e stoici cristiani" [Two medical cultures of the Enlightenment: Epicurean pagans and Stoic Christians], translated by Cinzia Schiavini, Filosofia e Cultura nel Settecento Britannico , ed. Antonio Santucci (Bologna: Mulino, 2001) pp. 11-35.

"David Hume (1711-76)", International Encyclopaedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences (Oxford: Pergamon Press, 2002).

"George Cheyne, Chevalier Ramsay, and Hume's Letter to a Physician", Hume Studies, vol. 29, no.1, April 2003, pp. 125-4.

"L'origine storiche dell'interpretazione positivistica di Hume riguardo la causalità", trans. Cristina Paoletti, in Filosofia, Scienza e Politica nel Settecento Brittanico, ed. Luigi Turco (Padua: Il Poligrafo, 2003), pp. 229-54.

“Life Sciences” & “Medicine and Physiology”, Encyclopaedia of the Enlightenment, ed. Alan Kors (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003), vol. 2, pp. 405-7 & vol. 3, pp. 48-50.

"Andrew Wilson", article in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004).

"Die Debatte über die Seele" ["Debates about the Soul"], Viertes Kapitel, Grundriss der Geschichte der Philosophie: 18. Jahrhundert Grossbritannie/NordAmerika/ Niederlande, eds.  Helmut Holzhey mit Vilem Mudroch (Basel: Schwabe & Co. AG, 2004), §§ 12-13, pp. 249-69.

"The Scientific Reception of Hume's Theory of Causality: Establishing the Positivist Interpretation in Early Nineteenth-Century Scotland", in The Reception of David Hume in Europe, ed. Peter Jones (Bristol: Thommes-Continuum, 2005), pp. 327-47, 396-98.

"Reid's answer to Hume's scepticism: turning science into common sense", in eds. Emilio Mazza and Emanuele Ronchetti, Instruction and amusement: le ragioni dell'Illuminismo britannico (Padova: Il Poligrafo, 2005), pp. 143-163.

"The Treatise: Composition, Reception and Response", in ed. Saul Traiger, The Blackwell Guide to Hume's Treatise of Human Nature (Oxford: Blackwell, 2006), pp. 5-25.

“Kemp Smith and the Two Kinds of Naturalism in Hume’s Philosophy”, in eds. Emanuele Ronchetti and Emilio Mazza, New Essays on David Hume, special issue of  Rivista di Storia della Filosofia (Milan: Franco Angelli, 2007), pp.17-35.

Book Reviews (see the end of the list for the most recent):

Review of Lester King's The Philosophy of Medicine, the Early Eighteenth Century, Dialogue, Vol 21, no. 1, 1982.

Review of E.J. Kearns, Ideas in Seventeenth-Century France, Philosophical Books, Vol. 22, no. 2, April 1981.

Review of F.K. Taylor's The Concept of Illness, Disease, and Morbus, Philosophical Books, Vol. 22, no. 2, April 1981.

Review of G.A. Lindeboom's Descartes and Medicine, Bulletin of the History of Medicine, Vol. 55, 1981.

Review of Kathleen Squadrito's John Locke, Philosophical Review, Vol. 91, no. 2, April 1982.

Review of McGill Hume Studies, eds. D.F. Norton et. al., Philosophical Books, Vol. 24, no. 1, January, 1983.

Review of Ezra Talmor's Descartes and Hume, Philosophical Books, Vol. 24, no. 2., April 1983.

Review of Jonathan Harrison's Hume's Theory of Justice, Philosophical Books, Vol. 24, no. 4, October 1983.

Review of Elizabeth Labrousse's Bayle, Teaching Philosophy, Vol. 8, no. 3, 1985.

Andrew Cunningham and Roger French, eds., The Medical Enlightenment of the Eighteenth Century, Eighteenth-Century Scotland, no. 5, 1991.

Annette Baier, A Progress of Sentiments: Reflections on Hume's Treatise and Gilles Deleuze, Empiricism and Subjectivity: An Essay on Hume's Theory of Human Nature, in The Times Literary Supplement, (January, 1992).

Review of David Norton ed., The Cambridge Companion to Hume, for the Eighteenth-Century Scotland, no. 9 (Spring, 1995), pp. 22-23.

Review of Roger Woolhouse, Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz: the concept of substance in seventeenth century metaphysics, Canadian Philosophical Reviews, vol. xv, no. 6 (December, 1995), pp. 432-34.

Review of Susan James, Passion and Action: The emotions in seventeenth-century philosophy, Times Literary Supplement, no. 5000, January 29, 1999.

"Critical Notice of Manfred Kuehn, Scottish Common Sense In Germany, 1768-1800: A Contribution to the history of the Critical Philosophy", Reid Studies, Vol. 2, no. 1, Autumn 1998, pp. 49-55.

Review of Donald Livingston, Philosophical Melancholy and Delirium: Hume’s Pathology of Philosophy, Philosophical Books, vol. 41, no. 2, April 2000, pp. 108-11

Review of Stephen Nadler, Spinoza: a life, Philosophy in Review, vol. 19, no. 6, December 1999., pp.436-8.

Review of Anita Guerrini, Obesity and Depression in the Enlightenment: The Life and Times of George Cheyne, in Eighteenth-Century Scotland, no. 14, Spring, 2000, pp. 19-20

Review of Stephen Buckle, Hume's Enlightenment Tract, in Australasian Journal of Philosophy, vol. 8, no. 6, September 2003, pp. 434-6.

Review of Louis Loeb, Stability and Justification in Hume’s Treatise, in Journal of the History of Philosophy, vol. 41, no. 4, October 2003, pp. 562-4.