The Blackwell Guide to Hume's Treatise [Paperback]

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• 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.

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 WolÃ/