Hume

Hume is essential reading not only for students of philosophy, but anyone in the humanities and social sciences and beyond seeking an introduction to Hume's thought...

Hume on Religion..

First published in 1961, this book considers Hume’s request to be judged solely by the acknowledged works of his maturity. It focuses on Hume’s first Inquiry in its own right as a separate book to the likes of his other works, such as the Treatise and the Dialogues, which are here only used as suppl..

First published in 1961, this book considers Hume’s request to be judged solely by the acknowledged works of his maturity. It focuses on Hume’s first Inquiry in its own right as a separate book to the likes of his other works, such as the Treatise and the Dialogues, which are here only used as suppl..

The essence of Hume’s eighteenth-century philosophy was that all the sciences were ‘dependent on the science of man’, and that the foundations of any such science need to rest on experience and observation. This title, first published in 1932, examines in detail how Hume interpreted ‘the science of ..

First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

This book demonstrates how Hume’s moral philosophy comports with recent work from the empirical sciences and moral psychology. This collection corrects an important oversight in contemporary interdisciplinary research in value theory...

This book updates our understanding of Hume’s scientific methodology by using a more sophisticated picture of science as a model. Landy argues that Hume is a kind of scientific realist who holds that science can and must employ theoretical representations of unobservable entities to explain the obse..

The author argues that analysis of the arguments of the Hume's Treatise throws light on Hume’s later economic, political and historical work...

The author argues that analysis of the arguments of the Hume's Treatise throws light on Hume’s later economic, political and historical work...