HUME STUDIES is an interdisciplinary scholarly journal dedicated to publishing important work bearing on the thought of David Hume. The journal is receptive to a wide variety of topics, methods, and approaches, so long as the work contributes to the understanding of Hume’s thought, meets the highest standards of scholarship, and demonstrates mastery of the relevant scholarly literature. Hume Studies is published by the Hume Society in April and November.
Issues appear on-line in the proper month and paper issues are delivered within the next month (international mail may take longer.) See "For Authors" to submit a paper and to find our Rights and Permissions statement.
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Call for Papers
Special Panel on Hume and the Enlightenment: New Perspectives
The editors of Hume Studies are planning to publish a special panel on “David Hume and the Enlightenment: New Perspectives.” We are especially interested in Hume’s relationship to neglected figures or to little-discussed Enlightenment themes, although all relevant topics are welcome. There is no word limit, but we highly prefer papers under 12,000 words, inclusive of notes. To submit your paper for consideration, simply follow the instructions for submissions ("For Authors") here on our website.
When you submit your paper, please write in the “Comments for the Editors” that you would like your paper considered for the special panel. Abstracts are not eligible; we will consider full papers only.
Submissions need not be formatted according to our style guide (Chicago) to be considered, but accepted authors will be asked to format them later. Papers submitted for the panel may also be considered for the annual Hume Studies Essay Prize, if they qualify. (See information below). We will make every attempt to expedite review and deliver decisions within 8 weeks. The special panel is planned for issue 51:2 (Nov. 2026).
Due date for submissions: August 1, 2025.
Fifth Hume Studies Essay Prize
The Hume Society invites submissions for the Hume Studies Essay Prize, to be awarded in 2026. The annual competition is open to those ten or fewer years from the Ph.D., including those currently enrolled in a Ph.D. program. The winning paper will be published with acknowledgment in Hume Studies, and the author will receive $1,000.* Hume Studies, the interdisciplinary journal of the Hume Society, publishes work on all aspects of Hume and his world. To be eligible for the prize, papers must be submitted any time before and including August 1, 2025 (11:59 Eastern Daylight Savings time). To enter the competition, authors should submit their papers to the journal for publication at https://www.humesociety.org/ojs/index.php/hs/information/authors. They will be asked as a step in the submission process whether they qualify; please indicate if you do. Papers will undergo the regular anonymized referee review process and a separate review by a subset of members of the Editorial Board, who will decide the competition winner. Papers not selected for the award may still be accepted for publication. The editors can decide not to move submissions on to the Board review if referee reports indicate they would not be competitive. The Editorial Board reserves the right not to award a prize in any given competition. Since this is an annual competition, any papers submitted by eligible authors after August 1, 2025, will be in the next year's competition.
*In order to comply with IRS reporting guidelines, disbursal of the full prize value will require the winner to provide a U.S. taxpayer identification number. Please direct questions to editors, Elizabeth Radcliffe (eradcliffe@wm.edu) or Mark Spencer (mspencer@brocku.ca).
