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Record W4409951496 · doi:10.1353/hms.2025.a958190

Fifty Years of Scholarship in Hume Studies

2025· article· en· W4409951496 on OpenAlexvenueno aff
Don Garrett

Bibliographic record

VenueHume studies · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicPolitical Economy and Marxism
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsScholarshipPhilosophyEpistemologyPsychoanalysisPsychologyPolitical scienceLaw

Abstract

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Abstract: Fifty years ago, Roland Hall published his survey, Fifty Years of Hume Scholarship , for the years 1925 to 1975. In it, he remarked on the 1975 founding of Hume Studies , and he expressed the hope that "as published work on this great philosopher becomes increasing precise, accurate, and philosophically rewarding, he may for the first time since the eighteenth century have an important influence on the development of philosophy." This essay for the 50th anniversary issue of Hume Studies briefly and selectively reviews the five decades of the journal to date as a reflection of developments in Hume studies more generally. For each decade, it describes an emerging interpretive debate, mentions some other new topics and trends, and lists some of the most significant new books. By way of conclusion, it compares present-day Hume scholarship with the state of Hume scholarship fifty years ago. In the course of doing so, it seeks to highlight a few of the many respects in which our understanding of the central aspects of Hume's thought has become, just as Hall hoped, more "precise, accurate, and philosophically rewarding" in ways that serve to justify his still-growing appreciation and influence.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.003
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.472
Threshold uncertainty score0.333

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.003
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.151
GPT teacher head0.469
Teacher spread0.318 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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