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David Hume is, arguably, the most important philosopher ever to have written in English. Although best known for his contributions to epistemology, metaphysics, and the philosophy of religion, Hume also made substantial and influential contributions to psychology and the philosophy of mind, ethics, the philosophy of science, political and economic theory, political and social history, and, to a lesser extent, aesthetic and literary theory. All facets of Hume's output are discussed in this volume, the first genuinely comprehensive overview of his work. The picture that emerges is of a thinker who, though critical to the point of scepticism, was nonetheless able to build on that scepticism a profoundly important, and still viable, constructive philosophy

With Thomas Hill Green's 1886 edition of David Hume's philosophical works, the origins of philosophical empiricism were firmly established in the theory of British intellectuals John Locke, David Hume, & Bishop Berkeley. Green argued that Hume borrowed Locke's tabula rasa theory & Berkeley's sense doctrine to form his own empirical premises & to oppose the rationalist tradition. However, research indicates Berkeley's & Hume's debt to the Frenchman Nicholas Malebranche & to the Rationalist tradition, & also shows how the views of Locke, Berkeley, & Hume are importantly different. Finally Hume himself specifically criticized empirical doctrines. The traditional labels of "British Empiricism" & Continental Rationalism are inaccurate designations, & should be dropped. D. Dunseath.

An introduction to hume's thought / David Fate Norton -- Hume's new science of the mind / John Biro -- Hume and the mechanics of mind : impressions, ideas, and association / David Owen -- Hume's theory of space and time in its sceptical context / Donald L.M. Baxter -- Hume on causation / Martin Bell -- Hume and the problem of personal identity / Jane L. Mcintyre -- Hume's scepticism / Robert J. Fogelin -- Hume's moral psychology / Terence Penelhum -- The foundations of morality in Hume's treatise / David Fate Norton -- Hume's later moral philosophy / Jacqueline Taylor -- The structure of Hume's political theory / Knud Haakonssen -- David Hume : principles of political economy / Andrew S. Skinner -- Hume on the arts and "the standard of taste" : texts and contexts / Peter Jones -- David Hume: "the historian" / David Wootton -- Hume on religion / J.C.A. Gaskin

An introduction to hume's thought / David Fate Norton -- Hume's new science of the mind / John Biro -- Hume and the mechanics of mind : impressions, ideas, and association / David Owen -- Hume's theory of space and time in its sceptical context / Donald L.M. Baxter -- Hume on causation / Martin Bell -- Hume and the problem of personal identity / Jane L. Mcintyre -- Hume's scepticism / Robert J. Fogelin -- Hume's moral psychology / Terence Penelhum -- The foundations of morality in Hume's treatise / David Fate Norton -- Hume's later moral philosophy / Jacqueline Taylor -- The structure of Hume's political theory / Knud Haakonssen -- David Hume : principles of political economy / Andrew S. Skinner -- Hume on the arts and "the standard of taste" : texts and contexts / Peter Jones -- David Hume: "the historian" / David Wootton -- Hume on religion / J.C.A. Gaskin