Hume's 'Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding': A Reader's Guide

✍ Scribed by Alan Bailey, Dan O'Brien

• Publisher: Continuum
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 171
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Continuum's Reader's Guides are clear, concise and accessible introductions to classic works of philosophy. Each book explores the major themes, historical and philosophical context and key passages of a major philosophical text, guiding the reader towa

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 6
Preface......Page 8
Acknowledgements......Page 9
1. The Enquiry and its context......Page 12
2. Sources......Page 21
1. Empiricism......Page 27
2. Epistemological scepticism......Page 29
3. A naturalistic account of human beings......Page 32
4. Secularism......Page 33
1. Of the different species of philosophy......Page 36
2. Of the origin of ideas......Page 45
3. Of the association of ideas......Page 54
4. Sceptical doubts concerning the operations of the understanding......Page 57
5. Sceptical solution of these doubts......Page 68
6. Of probability......Page 75
7. The idea of necessary connection......Page 79
8. Of liberty and necessity......Page 95
9. Of the reason of animals......Page 107
10. Of miracles......Page 112
11. Of a particular providence and of a future state......Page 125
12. Of the Academical or sceptical philosophy......Page 138
1. The epistemology of testimony......Page 148
2. Naturalized epistemology......Page 151
3. Cognitive science......Page 154
3. Secondary literature on Hume’s philosophy......Page 158
4. Detailed further reading......Page 159
Bibliography......Page 165
C......Page 168
H......Page 169
P......Page 170
U......Page 171