Research Catalog

Title

An enquiry concerning human understanding / David Hume ; edited by Lorne Falkenstein.

Author

Hume, David, 1711-1776

Publication

Peterborough, Ont. ; Buffalo, NY : Broadview Press, c2011.

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Details

Additional Authors

Falkenstein, Lorne, 1957-

Description

311 p. : ill.; 22 cm.

Summary

"Over a series of elegantly written, engaging essays, the Enquiry examines the experiential and psychological sources of meaning and knowledge, the foundations of reasoning about matters that lie beyond the scope of our sensory experience and memory, the nature of belief, and the limitations of our knowledge. The positions Hume takes on these topics have been described as paradigmatically empiricist, sceptical, and naturalist and have been widelyinfluential and even more widely decried. The introduction to this eiditon discusses the Enquiry's origin, evolution, and critical reception, while appendices provide examples of contemporary responses to Hume"--Page 4 of cover.

Series Statement

Broadview editions

Uniform Title

• Philosophical essays concerning human understanding
• Broadview editions

Alternative Title

Philosophical essays concerning human understanding

Subject

• Knowledge, Theory of
• Théorie de la connaissance

Note

• "The introduction ... discusses the Enquiry's origin, evolution, and critical reception, while appendices provide examples of contemporary responses to Hume"--Cover p. [4].

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Machine generated contents note: Front Matter from the 1758 and 1777 Editions of Hume's Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects -- Enquiry concerning Human Understanding -- Section 1 Of the different Species of Philosophy -- Section 2 Of the Origin of Ideas -- Section 3 Of the Association of Ideas -- Section 4 Sceptical Doubts concerning the Operations of the Understanding -- Section 5 Sceptical Solution of these Doubts -- Section 6 Of Probability -- Section 7 Of the Idea of necessary Connexion -- Section 8 Of Liberty and Necessity -- Section 9 Of the Reason of Animals -- Section 10 Of Miracles -- Section 11 Of a particular Providence and of a future State -- Section 12 Of the academical or sceptical Philosophy.

ISBN

• 9781551118024
• 1551118025

OCLC

• 727455346
• SCSB-10945333

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library