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Continuum's ""Guides for the Perplexed"" are clear, concise and accessible introductions to thinkers, writers and subjects that students and readers can find especially challenging. Concentrating specifically on what it is that makes the subject difficult to fathom, these books explain and explore key themes and ideas, guiding the reader towards a thorough understanding of demanding material. David Hume is arguably one of the most important philosophers ever to have written in English. His monumental contributions to epistemology and metaphysics, represented in his two landmark works, ""A Trea

Continuum's Guides for the Perplexed are clear, concise and accessible introductions to thinkers, writers and subjects that students and readers can find especially challenging. Concentrating specifically on what it is that makes the subject difficult to fathom, these books explain and explore key themes and ideas, guiding the reader towards a thorough understanding of demanding material. David Hume is arguably one of the most important philosophers ever to have written in English. His monumental contributions to epistemology and metaphysics, represented in his two landmark works, A Treatise of Human Nature and An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, were hugely influential on both sides of the Atlantic. Yet he is also notorious as a puzzling and difficult thinker and students of his work and thought regularly face very particular intellectual challenges. Hume: A Guide for the Perplexed is a clear and thorough account of Hume's philosophy, his major works and ideas, providing an ideal guide to the important and complex thought of this key philosopher. The book covers the whole range of Hume's work, offering examination of the key areas of his thought, including the origin and association of ideas, space and time, causal (inductive) reasoning, necessary connexions, free will, personal identity, and skepticism. Geared towards the specific requirements of students who need to reach a sound understanding of Hume's thought, the book provides a cogent and reliable survey of his work and ideas. This is the ideal companion to the study of this most influential and challenging of philosophers.

"This second edition of Historical Dictionary of Hume's Philosophy contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 100 cross-referenced entries covering key terms, as well as brief discussions of Hume's major works and of some of his most important predecessors, contemporaries, and successors"--

Hume and the ancients / Lívia Guimarães -- Hume's philosophy and its modern British debts / Stephen Buckle -- The French context of Hume's philosophy / Todd Ryan) -- Hume's system of the sciences / Don Garrett -- Ideas and association in Hume's philosophy / Saul Traiger -- Hume on space and time : a limited defense / Jonathan Cottrell -- Hume on induction and probability / Frederick Schmitt -- Causality and Hume's project / Miren Boehm -- Hume and the external world / Stefanie Rocknak -- Hume's self / Yumiko Inukai -- Humean naturalism and skepticism / P.J.E Kail -- Miracles and the Humean mind / Michael Levine -- Hume's psychology of religion / Willem Lemmens -- Hume on religious language and the attributes of God / Thomas Holden -- Passions and sympathy in Hume's philosophy / Alessio Vaccari -- Hume on motives and action / Rachel Cohon -- Hume on moral responsibility and free will / Tamas Demeter -- Hume's moral sentimentalism / James Baillie -- Justice and convention in Hume's philosophy / Eleonore LaJalle -- Hume and the two tastes : bodily and mental / Christopher Williams -- Fluctuations : manners and religion in Hume's Standard of Taste / Emilio Mazza -- Hume the historian / Mark Spencer -- Hume's history and politics / Andrew Sabl -- Hume : the science of man and the foundations of politics / Christopher Berry -- Hume's political economy / Carl Wennerlind -- Custom in Hume's politics and economics / John C. Laursen -- Hume and the philosophy of law / Neil MacArthur -- Hume and the Scottish intellectual tradition / Gordon Graham -- Hume and German philosophy / Anik Waldow -- Hume, the philosophy of science and the scientific tradition / Matias Slavov -- Hume and continental philosophy / Jeffrey Bell -- Hume's meaning empiricism : a reassessment / Tom Seppalainen -- Cognitive science and Hume's legacy / Mark Collier -- A Humean social ontology / Angela Coventry, Alex Sager and Tom Seppalainen -- Hume's moral philosophy and psychology / Lorraine L. Besser -- Hume and animal ethics / Deborah Boyle -- Hume on the minds of women / Katharina Paxman and Kristen Blair -- Hume's legacy concerning race / Andre C. Willis.

A key figure of the Scottish Enlightenment, David Hume was a major influence on thinkers ranging from Kant and Schopenhauer to Einstein and Popper, and his writings continue to be deeply relevant today. With four essays by leading Hume scholars exploring his complex intellectual legacy, this volume presents an overview of Hume's moral, political, and social philosophy. Editors Angela Coventry and Andrew Valls bring together a selection of writings from Hume's most important works, with contributors placing them in their appropriate context and offering a lively discourse on the relevance of Hume's thought to contemporary subjects like reason's dependence on emotion and the importance of social convention in political and economic behavior. Perfect for classroom use, this volume is an invaluable companion for anyone studying an important thinker who advanced the development of moral philosophy, economics, cognitive science, and many other fields of the Western tradition.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contributors -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Index of Names -- Note on the Texts -- Texts -- An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals -- 1. Of the General Principles of Morals -- 2. Of Benevolence -- 3. Of Justice -- 4. Of Political Society -- 5. Why Utility Pleases -- 6. Of Qualities Useful to Ourselves -- 7. Of Qualities Immediately Agreeable to Ourselves -- 8. Of Qualities Immediately Agreeable to Others -- 9. Conclusion -- Appendixes -- 1. Concerning Moral Sentiment -- 2. Of Self-Love -- 3. Some Farther Considerations with Regard to Justice -- 4. Of Some Verbal Disputes -- A: Dialogue -- Essays, Moral, Political and Literary -- 1. Of the Liberty of the Press -- 2. That Politics May Be Reduced to a Science -- 3. Of the First Principles of Government -- 4. Of the Origin of Government -- 5. Of Parties in General -- 6. Of National Characters -- 7. Of Commerce -- 8. Of Refinement in the Arts -- 9. Of Public Credit -- 10. Of the Original Contract -- 11. Of Passive Obedience -- 12. Idea of a Perfect Commonwealth -- Essays -- The Composition, Reception, and Early Influence of Hume's Essays and Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals -- How Hume Influenced Contemporary Moral Philosophy -- Political Science and Political Theory in Hume's Essays -- Hume on Decisions, Convention, and Justice -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Z