Cambridge Companion to Hume

Name: Cambridge Companion to Hume
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ISBN: 9780521677349

ISBN-10: 0521677343

ISBN-13: 9780521677349

Edition: 2nd 2008 (Revised)

Authors: David Fate Norton, Jacqueline Taylor, Jacqueline Anne Taylor, Jacqueline Anne Taylor

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Each Cambridge Companion to a philosophical figure is made up of specially commissioned essays by an international team of scholars, providing students and non-specialists with an introduction to a major philosopher. The series aims to dispel the intimidation that readers may feel when faced with the work of a challenging thinker. David Hume is now considered one of the most important philosophers of the Western world. Although best known for his contributions to the theory of knowledge, metaphysics, and philosophy of religion, Hume also influenced developments in the philosophy of mind, psychology, ethics, political and economic theory, political and social history, and aesthetic theory.…

Book details

List price: $41.99
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 12/8/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 578
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.21" long x 1.42" tall
Weight: 2.090
Language: English



List of Contributors


Preface to the Second Edition


Method of Citation


List of Abbreviations



An Introduction to Hume's Thought




Hume's New Science of the Mind




Hume and the Mechanics of Mind: Impressions, Ideas, and Association




Hume's Theory of Space and Time in Its Skeptical Context




Hume on Causation




Hume and the Problem of Personal Identity




Hume's Skepticism




Hume's Moral Psychology




The Foundations of Morality in Hume's Treatise




Hume's Later Moral Philosophy




The Structure of Hume's Political Theory




Hume's Principles of Political Economy




Hume on the Arts and "The Standard of Taste": Texts and Contexts




David Hume: "The Historian"




Hume on Religion




Hume's Autobiographies



A Kind of History of My Life (1734)



My Own Life (1776)


Selected Bibliography


Index