An enquiry concerning human understanding
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An enquiry concerning human understanding
（Broadview editions）
Broadview Press, c2011
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Chronology: p. 23-25
Includes bibliographical references (p. 295-306) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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 widely influential and even more widely decried.
The introduction to this edition discusses the Enquiry's origin, evolution, and critical reception, while appendices provide examples of contemporary responses to Hume.
Table of Contents
Preface and Acknowledgements
Abbreviations and References
Introduction
David Hume: A Brief Chronology
A Note on the Texts
Front Matter from the 1758 and 1777 Editions of Hume's Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects
An 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
Appendix A: From George Campbell, A Dissertation on Miracles (1762)
Appendix B: From Thomas Reid, An Inquiry into the Human Mind on the Principles of Common Sense (1764) and Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man (1785)
Appendix C: From James Beattie, An Essay on the Nature and Immutability of Truth (1774)
Appendix D: From Immanuel Kant, Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics (1784) and The Critique of Pure Reason (1781/1787)
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Hume's Index to the Enquiry
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