About the Journal
Hume Studies publishes important, original, peer reviewed work on the life, thought, intellectual milieu, and reception of Scots Philosopher, Historian, and Economist David Hume (1711–76). Work on Hume's contributions to or influences on any field including but not limited to philosophy, history, psychology, economics, politics, and religion, is welcome. The Journal is receptive to a wide variety of methods and approaches provided the work contributes to the understanding of Hume's thought, meets the highest standards of scholarship and demonstrates mastery of Hume’s writings and the pertinent secondary literature.
Submissions are accepted in English, French, German, and Spanish and must pass double anonymous peer review as a condition of publication. There are no word limits, but processing times will be longer for unusually long or difficult papers. Submissions by authors who are ten or fewer years from the Ph.D. can also be considered for the Hume Studies Essay Prize. There are no submission or author fees. The Editors aim to give authors initial decisions within 8 weeks of submission, except for unusually long or difficult papers, and to have accepted papers published online within 12 months of acceptance.
Volumes prior to the five most recent are openly accessible through the Society’s website. All volumes are accessible electronically or in print through libraries that subscribe via Project Muse or the Philosophy Documentation Center. Individual electronic (and optional print) subscriptions come with Hume Society membership. Issues appear twice yearly, constituting the volume for that year. Paper copy may be issued some time after online copy becomes available. Hume Studies is permanently archived through Project Muse.
Copyright to Hume Studies is held by the Hume Society. Authors are free to reuse their own articles in other publications they write or edit on condition of acknowledgement of original publication in Hume Studies. They are also encouraged to post their preprint (pre-peer review) or accepted (post-peer review but not typeset) articles to personal and personalized professional websites on condition that they reference the formally peer-reviewed, copy-edited, and typeset version that appears in Hume Studies as the “version of record” of their work and stipulate that all citations and references should be drawn from it. Permission is required for republication by anyone other than the author in any anthology, textbook, monograph, journal, database, or web site. Contact the editors for more information.
The names and email addresses entered in this journal site will be used exclusively for the stated purposes of this journal and will not be made available for any other purpose or to any other party.
Hume Studies was founded by John W. Davis in 1975 and published its first issue in April of that year. It is currently owned and managed by the Hume Society, with the advice of a Society-appointed editorial board. Hume Studies and its publisher, The Hume Society, earn revenue from three principal sources. In recent years, approximately 67% of that revenue has come from institutional and individual subscriptions to Hume Studies. The remaining revenue comes primarily from diversified reinvestments of the subscription revenue (25%) and society membership dues (8%). The Journal does not accept advertising.
ISSN: 1947-9921
Print ISSN: 0319-7336
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