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Norman Kemp Smith's The Philosophy of David Hume has long been regarded as a classic study by scholars in the field - a ground-breaking book that has since been unsurpassed in its comprehensive coverage of the ideas and issues of Hume's Treatise. This reissue brings this currently out-of-print and highly sought-after classic up-to-date with a new introduction by Don Garrett. Garrett's new introduction sets the book in its contemporary context and makes the case for its continuing importance in the field of Hume scholarship.
| ISBN | 1403915075 | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | | ISBN13 | 9781403915078
(What's this?) | | Pages | 608 | | Publisher | Palgrave USA | | Volumes | 1 | | Imprint | Palgrave Macmillan | | Weight (grammes) | 771 | | Format | Paperback | | Published in | Gordonsville | | Publication date | 13 Jan 2005 | | Height (mm) | 216 | | Writer of introduction | Don Garrett | | Width (mm) | 138 | | Library of Congress | B1498.S5 2 | | Spine width (mm) | 41 | | DEWEY | 192 | | Academic level | Tertiary education, Professional / Scholarly |
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| Pt. I | | The origins of Hume's philosophy | | | | Ch. I | | Introductory : the distinctive principles and ethical origins of Hume's philosophy | | 3 | | Ch. II | | Hutcheson's teaching and its influence on Hume | | 23 | | Ch. III | | The influence of Newton and of Locke | | 53 | | Pt. II | | Preliminary simplified statement of Hume's central doctrines, taken mainly in the order of their exposition in the Treatise and Enquiries | | | | Ch. IV | | Current misunderstandings of Hume's teaching | | 79 | | Ch. V | | Preliminary outline statement of Hume's teaching as expounded in Parts i, iii and iv of book I of the Treatise | | 105 | | Ch. VI | | Preliminary outline statement of Hume's theory of morals, as expounded in books II and III of the Treatise | | 139 | | Pt. III | | Detailed consideration of the central doctrines, taken in what may be presumed to have been the order of their first discovery | | | | Ch. VII | | Doctrine of the passions and of sympathy in its bearing on Hume's theory of morals | | 159 | | Ch. VIII | | The indirect passions of pride and humility, love and hatred; and in connexion therewith Hume's first statement and application of the principles of association | | 179 | | Ch. IX | | The function of reason in the moral sphere | | 193 | | Ch. X | | The opening sections of the Treatise, as predetermined by Hume's early doctrine of belief | | 205 | | Ch. XI | | Memory | | 229 | | Ch. XII | | The association of ideas, and its products | | 239 | | Ch. XIII | | Abstract ideas | | 257 | | Ch. XIV | | Hume's version of Hutcheson's teaching that space and time are non-sensational | | 273 | | Ch. XV | | 'Knowledge' in the strict sense of the term | | 349 | | Ch. XVI | | Belief in causality : the nature of causal 'inference' | | 365 | | Ch. XVII | | Belief in causality : the origin of the idea of necessity | | 391 | | | More... | | |
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