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)

Select Bibliography
Hume’s Index to the Enquiry