The Blackwell guide to Hume's Treatise - Saul Traiger

David Hume s
A Treatise of Human Nature is one of the most important works of modern philosophy. This Guide provides students with the scholarly and interpretive tools needed to begin mining Hume
s
Treatise for philosophical insight.

The Guide contains fifteen newly written chapters by leading Hume scholars. Each chapter guides the reader through a selected portion of the Treatise, explaining the central arguments, as well as key contemporary interpretations of those arguments. They cover such topics as: the formulation, reception, and scope of the Treatise; the theory of impressions and ideas; imagination and memory; space and time; causation and causal inference; the passions; Hume
s treatment of belief in the external world and the self; the moral sentiments and their relation to reason; and the role of sympathy.