Hume's A treatise of human nature : a critical guide / edited by Elizabeth S. Radcliffe.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Radcliffe, Elizabeth Schmidt, 1955- editor.

Series:

Cambridge critical guides

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hume, David, 1711-1776. Treatise of human nature.

Hume, David.

Treatise of human nature (Hume, David).

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2026.

Summary:

"David Hume's A Treatise of Human Nature, published anonymously in 1739–40, was his first major work of philosophy, and his only systematic, scientific analysis of human nature. It is now regarded as a classic text in the history of Western thought and a key text in philosophical empiricism, scepticism, and naturalism. This Critical Guide offers fourteen new essays on the work by established and emerging Hume scholars, ranging over Hume's epistemology and philosophy of mind, the passions and ethics, and the early reception of the Treatise. Topics include the significance of Hume's treatment of the passion of curiosity, the critical responses to Hume's account of how we acquire belief in external objects, and Hume's depiction of the human tendency to view the world in inegalitarian ways and its impact on our view of virtue. The volume will be valuable for scholars and students of Hume studies and in eighteenth-century philosophy more generally"-- Cambridge University Press.

Contents:

The association of ideas in Hume’s Treatise / John P. Wright

Methodizing Hume’s metaphysics / Donald L.M. Baxter

Hume on belief / Jennifer Smalligan Marusic

“All the logic I think proper to employ” : Hume’s rules by which to judge of causes and effects / Hsueh Qu

Imagining the unseen : the external world of Hume’s Treatise / Angela M. Coventry

The updating problem for Hume’s account of belief in personal identity / Annemarie Butler

Experimental philosophy, blind submission, and Hume’s other “sceptical principles” / Miren Boehm

How to read Book 1 of the Treatise / Katharina Paxman

Hume on curiosity : the conclusion to Treatise Book 2 / Emilio Mazza

Hume’s geography of feeling in A Treatise of Human Nature / Don Garrett

Some vexations about character in Hume’s Treatise / Elizabeth S. Radcliffe

Hume on promising and self-obligation / Rachel Cohon

No men are created equal : rank, passions, and virtues in Hume’s Treatise / Margaret Watkins

The eighteenth-century British reception of Hume’s A Treatise of Human Nature / Mark G. Spencer and Mikko Tolonen.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (Cambridge University Press, viewed December 10, 2025).

Other Format:

Print version: Hume's A treatise of human nature

ISBN:

9781009218047

1009218042

OCLC:

1552153567

Publisher Number:

CIPO000304524

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