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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
May 2006
Print publication year:
1993
Online ISBN:
9781139000642
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CCOL0521382734
Subjects:
History of Philosophy, Regional and World History: General Interest, History, Philosophy
Series:
Cambridge Companions to Philosophy
Collection:
The Cambridge Companions to Philosophy and Religion
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Book description

David Hume is, arguably, the most important philosopher ever to have written in English. Although best known for his contributions to epistemology, metaphysics, and the philosophy of religion, Hume also made substantial and influential contributions to psychology and the philosophy of mind, ethics, the philosophy of science, political and economic theory, political and social history, and, to a lesser extent, aesthetic and literary theory. All facets of Hume's output are discussed in this volume, the first genuinely comprehensive overview of his work. The picture that emerges is of a thinker who, though critical to the point of scepticism, was nonetheless able to build on that scepticism a profoundly important, and still viable, constructive philosophy.

Reviews

"The breadth of The Cambridge Companion to Hume matches the sweeping scope of Hume's thought....Even though each essay considers in depth a distinct area of Hume's thinking, this volume has the cohesiveness of a text, with some of the authors writing with an explicit awareness of other essays included in the collection....Norton has admirably produced a book that will serve as an invaluable and enduring repository of accessible presentations by accomplished scholars on the major areas of Hume's thought." Elizabeth S. Radcliffe, Philosophical Review

"The breadth of The Cambridge Companion to Hume matches the sweeping scope of Hume's thought....Even though each essay considers in depth a distinct area of Hume's thinking, this volume has the cohesiveness of a text, with some of the authors writing with an explicit awareness of other essays included in the collection....Norton has admirably produced a book that will serve as an invaluable and enduring repository of accessible presentations by accomplished scholars on the major areas of Hume's thought." Elizabeth S. Radcliffe, Philosophical Review

"...a valuable resource for graduate and advanced undergraduate classes....Though Hume specialists will surely find this book helpful--especially as a starting point for filling in gaps in their knowledge--it is crafted with a larger audience in mind. Nonspecialists will find the essays accessible and stimulating, full of useful material both about Hume's intellectual context and about Hume's contributions to shaping issues that grip us now." Ira Singer, Ethics

"...an attarctive volume. It will be useful both to those who want to see the grand design of Hume's work as well as those who are interested only in his contributions to one or another discipline." John Immerwahr, International Studies in Philosophy

"...individual articles will be useful to those teaching Hume, and will provide an excellent resource for students or researchers who are writing on one of these topics. In my judgement, the book is generally reliabel..." Nathan Brett, Dialogue

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