The Blackwell Guide to Hume's Treatise

This Guide provides students with the scholarly and interpretive tools they need to understand Hume’s A Treatise of Human Nature and its influence on modern philosophy. A student guide to Hume’s A Treatise of Human Nature. Focuses on recent developments in Hume scholarship. Covers topics such as the formulation, reception and scope of the Treatise, imagination and memory, the passions, moral sentiments, and the role of sympathy. All the chapters are newly written by Hume scholars. Each chapter guides the reader through a portion of the Treatise, explaining the central arguments and key contemporary interpretations of those arguments.

Notes on Contributors. References to the Threatise, Abstract, and Enquiries. Editor's Introduction. Part I: Formulation, Reception and Scope of the Treatise:. 1. The Treatise: Composition, Reception and Response: John Wright (Central Michigan University). 2. Hume’s Other Writings:Wade Robison (Rochester Institute of Technology). Part II: The Understanding:. 3. Impressions and Ideas: Janet Broughton (University of California, Berkeley). 4. Space and Time: Lorne Falkenstein (University of Western Ontario). 5. Belief, Probability, Normativity: William Edward Morris (Illinois Wesleyan University). 6. Causation: Abraham Sesshu Roth (University of Illinois at Chicago). 7. Identity, Continued Existence, and the External World: Don Baxter (University of Connecticut). 8. Personal Identity and the Sceptical System of Philosophy: Corliss Gayda Swain (St. Olaf College). 9. Hume’s Conclusions in ‘Conclusion of this Book’: Don Garrett (New York University). Part III: The Passions:. 10. The Powers and Mechanisms of the Passions: Lilli Alanen (Uppsala University). 11. Hume’s “New and Extraordinary” Account of the Passions: Jane McIntyre (Cleveland State University). 12. Liberty, Necessity and the Will: Tony Pitson (University of Stirling). Part IV: Morals:. 13. Reason, Passion and the Influencing Motives of the Will: Mike Karlsson (University of Iceland). 14. Hume’s Artificial and Natural Virtues: Rachel Cohon (University at Albany, State University of New York). 15. Virtue and the Evaluation of Character: Jacqueline Taylor (University of San Francisco). Index