a treatise of human nature by david hume

‘Of the Academical or Sceptical Philosophy’Īlthough not all of the contributors to the book would entirely sympathise with this ambition, my own personal hope is that it will persuade at least some others to see the Enquiry as a major work of philosophy in its own right, and indeed as a more faithful presentation of the central themes of Hume’s ‘general philosophy’ (i.e. ‘Hume versus Price on Miracles and Prior Probabilities’ ‘Belief and Instinct in Hume’s First Enquiry’ ‘Hume’s Sceptical Doubts concerning Induction’ ‘Two Species of Philosophy: The Historical Significance of the First Enquiry’ ‘The Context, Aims, and Structure of Hume’s First Enquiry’ The main chapters within the book are as follows (and will be referred to in this survey by the capitalised word ‘Chapter’): Introduction This new book contains essays by many prominent Hume scholars, providing systematic coverage of the first Enquiry but at the same time giving a variety of contrasting views on the key scholarly issues. Which is to be published by Oxford University Press next year, and will be referred to here as ‘Millican (2001)’.

Peter Millican (ed.), Reading Hume on Human Understanding: Essays on the First Enquiry (Oxford: Clarendon Press, forthcoming 2001).

This survey aims to provide both a research and a teaching resource, by giving useful suggestions for secondary reading directly related to Hume’s Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, together with discussion of the philosophical and scholarly issues raised by that literature and references to contemporary works on the same themes.

10(b) Scepticism Regarding Infinite Divisibility.

10(a) Scepticism Regarding the External World.

8(a) Hume’s Treatment of Liberty and Necessity.

6(c) Probability and Rationality in the Treatise and the Enquiry.

6(b) Probability of Chances and Probability of Causes.

Belief, Probability, Rationality, and the Reason of Animals

A treatise of human nature by david hume