The Blackwell Guide to Hume's Treatise - Google Books Search Images Maps Play YouTube News Gmail Drive More » Sign in Books Try the new Google Books Check out the new look and enjoy easier access to your favorite features Try it now No thanks Try the new Google Books Try the new Google Books My library Help Advanced Book Search Buy eBook - $39.00 Get this book in print Wiley.com Amazon.com Barnes&Noble.com Books-A-Million IndieBound Find in a library All sellers » The Blackwell Guide to Hume's Treatise Saul Traiger John Wiley & Sons, Apr 15, 2008 - Philosophy - 312 pages 0 Reviews This Guide provides students with the scholarly and interpretive tools they need to understand Hume’s A Treatise of Human Nature and its influence on modern philosophy. A student guide to Hume’s A Treatise of Human Nature. Focuses on recent developments in Hume scholarship. Covers topics such as the formulation, reception and scope of the Treatise, imagination and memory, the passions, moral sentiments, and the role of sympathy. All the chapters are newly written by Hume scholars. Each chapter guides the reader through a portion of the Treatise, explaining the central arguments and key contemporary interpretations of those arguments.   Preview this book » What people are saying - Write a review We haven't found any reviews in the usual places. Selected pages Title Page Table of Contents Index References Contents Editors Introduction 1 PART I Formulation Reception and Scope of the Treatise 3 PART II The Understanding 41 PART III The Passions 177 PART IV Morals 233 Index 297 Copyright Other editions - View all The Blackwell Guide to Hume's Treatise Saul Traiger Snippet view - 2006 The Blackwell Guide to Hume's Treatise Saul Traiger No preview available - 2006 The Blackwell Guide to Hume's Treatise Saul Traiger No preview available - 2008 View all » Common terms and phrases achieve G action agent agent’s reason appears approval arise artificial virtues association Baier belief body Book Cambridge causal inference causal reasoning causally related cause and effect claim Clarendon Press Coeffeteau cognitive compatibilism conclusion constant conjunction critical David Hume degree of assent Descartes discussion Don Garrett Enquiry epistemic merit Essays example experience explain external objects faculties feel Fogelin Garrett Henry Home human nature Hume argues Hume says Hume Studies Hume’s account Hume’s argument Hume’s Philosophy Hume’s skepticism Hume’s theory Hume’s Treatise Hume’s view Humean Hutcheson imagination impressions and ideas indirect passions infinite divisibility interpretation judgment liveliness Malebranche mind moral evaluation moral sentiments motive necessary connection necessity normative observed one’s pain particular perceptions personal identity philosophical pleasure pride probable reasoning produce Pyrrhonian skepticism qualities question realize or achieve reflection Reid resemblance role Scottish Enlightenment sensation sense soul sympathy things Thomas Nagel thought tion vivacity About the author (2008) Saul Traiger is Professor of Philosophy at Occidental College in Los Angeles, California. He is the past president of the Hume Society, and has published numerous articles and reviews on Hume’s metaphysics and epistemology, as well as articles in contemporary epistemology, philosophy of mind, and the foundations of cognitive science. Bibliographic information Title The Blackwell Guide to Hume's Treatise Blackwell Guides to Great Works Editor Saul Traiger Publisher John Wiley & Sons, 2008 ISBN 140515313X, 9781405153133 Length 312 pages Subjects Philosophy  › History & Surveys  › Modern Philosophy / History & Surveys / Modern Philosophy / History & Surveys / Renaissance     Export Citation BiBTeX EndNote RefMan About Google Books - Privacy Policy - Terms of Service - Information for Publishers - Report an issue - Help - Google Home