Description: The Hume Society is an international organization of scholars whose purpose is to stimulate scholarship on all aspects of the thought and writings of David Hume, the 18th-century Scottish philosopher, historian and essayist. Membership in the society is open to everyone interested in Hume and his philosophical and literary contemporaries.
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The officers of the Hume Society and the editors of Hume Studies are pleased to announce the winner of the second annual Hume Studies Essay Prize.
The recipient of the prize for 2022 is Taro Okamura, for his paper, “Hume’s Passion-Based Account of Moral Responsibility.” Dr. Okamura received his Ph.D. from the University of Alberta in 2022. He is currently a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Research Fellow at the Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology at the University of Tokyo. Dr. Okamura is primarily interested in the history of early modern philosophy. His current project is to elucidate the significance of passion in Hume's epistemo
Dr. Okamura receives $1000 US, and his paper will be published in Hume Studies 48:2, November 2023. Congratulations to Taro for his fine work!
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