Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgments
  • Table of Contents
  • I. Editor's Introduction
  • Signatures and Taste: Hume's Mortal Leavings and Lucian / Babich, Babette
  • II "Of the Standard of Taste"
  • Of the Standard of Taste / Hume, David
  • III. Of Taste and Standards
  • Hume's Standard of Taste: Breaking the Circle / Kivy, Peter
  • Hume and the Standard of Taste / MacLachlan, Christopher
  • Taste and Order / Scruton, Roger
  • General Rules and Hume's "Of the Standard of Taste" / Costelloe, Timothy M.
  • Gendered Concepts and Hume's Standard of Taste / Korsmeyer, Carolyn
  • IV. Causal Theory and the Problem, Dispositional Critique and the Classic
  • Hume and the Causal Theory of Taste / Shiner, Roger A.
  • The Problem of a Standard of Taste / Townsend, Dabney
  • Taste and Civil Society / Caygill, Howard
  • Nietzsche's Aesthetic Science and Hume's Standard of Taste / Babich, Babette
  • V. Comparisons, Art, Anatomies
  • The Comparison as the Standardization of Aesthetic Norms / Démuth, Andrej / Démuthová, Slávka
  • Plato and Hume's Philosophy of Art / Freydberg, Bernard
  • "Cloathing the Parts again": The Ghost of the Treatise in the Standard of Taste / Mazza, Emilio
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Research and Citation Bibliography
  • Subject Index
  • Name Index