A Progress of Sentiments: Reflections on Hume's Treatise

by Annette C. Baier

Book by Baier, Annette C.

Genres: Philosophy

Hardcover

First published April 1, 1991

About the author

Annette C. Baier, a well-known moral philosopher and Hume scholar, focused in particular on Hume's moral psychology. She is well known also for her contributions to feminist philosophy and to the philosophy of mind, where she was strongly influenced by her former colleague, Wilfrid Sellars. Her husband was the philosopher Kurt Baier. For most of her career she taught in the philosophy department at the University of Pittsburgh, having moved there from Carnegie Mellon University. She retired to her native Dunedin, New Zealand, where she graduated from the University of Otago.

She is a former President of the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association, an office reserved for the elite of her profession. Baier received an honorary Doctor of Literature from the University of Otago in 1999.

Reviews

[Mary King · Rating 3 out of 5]

I really didn't want to give this 3/5 because it is actually a very profound little book. As much as it is about Hume's treatise, it is also one of those books where if you carefully read any random paragraph, you can get a lot out of it that is applicable to understanding philosophy and emotion.
3 out of 5 because this book is, I think, a lot harder and more dry than it needed to be. But, Annette Baier was a substantive philosopher, and so it comes with the territory...