How to Read Hume

'Be a philosopher; but, amidst all your philosophy, be still a man' - David Hume. David Hume is generally recognized as the United Kingdom's greatest philosopher, as well as a notable historian and essayist, and a central figure of the Enlightenment. Yet his work is delicately poised between scepticism and naturalism, between despair at the limited powers of the mind and optimism at the progress we can make by understanding it. This difficult balancing act has given rise to a multitude of different interpretations: reading Hume has never been free of controversy. In this new approach to his writings, Simon Blackburn describes how Hume can be placed as one of the earliest, and most successful, evolutionary psychologists, weaving plausible natural accounts of the way we should think of ourselves, and of how we have come to be what we are.

ISBN 1847080332   Volumes 1 ISBN13 9781847080332 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 100 Publisher Granta Books   Published in London Imprint Granta Books   Series title How to Read Format Paperback   Height (mm) 198 Publication date 01 Aug 2008   Width (mm) 129 DEWEY 192   Spine width (mm) 9 DEWEY edition DC22   Academic level General Pages 118

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