This collection on the Standard of Taste offers a much needed resource for students and scholars of philosophical aesthetics, political reflection, value and judgments, economics, and art. The authors include experts in the philosophy of art, aesthetics, history of philosophy as well as the history of science. This much needed volume on David Hume will enrich scholars across all levels of university study and research.

• Acknowledgments 6
• Table of Contents 8
• I. Editor’s Introduction 12
• Signatures and Taste: Hume’s Mortal Leavings and Lucian 12
• II “Of the Standard of Taste” 34
• Of the Standard of Taste 34
• Hume’s Standard of Taste: Breaking the Circle 52
• III. Of Taste and Standards 52
• Hume and the Standard of Taste 62
• Taste and Order 76
• General Rules and Hume’s “Of the Standard of Taste” 86
• Gendered Concepts and Hume’s Standard of Taste 106
• IV. Causal Theory and the Problem, Dispositional Critique and the Classic 126
• Hume and the Causal Theory of Taste 126
• The Problem of a Standard of Taste 142