Abstract

This collection contains fourteen critical essays on Hume's *A Treatise of Human Nature*, plus an Introduction: 1 The Association of Ideas in Hume’s Treatise (John P. Wright), 2 Methodizing Hume’s Metaphysics (Donald L. M. Baxter), 3 Hume on Belief (Jennifer Smalligan Marǔsić), 4 “All the Logic I think Proper to Employ”: Hume’s Rules by which to Judge of Causes and Effects (Hsueh Qu), 5 Imagining the Unseen: The External World of Hume’s Treatise (Angela Coventry), 6 The Updating Problem for Hume’s Account of Belief in Personal Identity (Annemarie Butler), 7 Experimental Philosophy, Blind Submission, and Hume’s Other Sceptical Principles (Miren Boehm), 8 How to Read Book 2 of the Treatise (Katharina Paxman), 9 Hume on Curiosity: The Conclusion to Treatise Book 2? (Emilio Mazza), 10 Hume’s Geography of Feeling in A Treatise of Human Nature (Don Garrett), 11 Some Vexations about Character in Hume’s Treatise (Elizabeth S. Radcliffe), 12 Hume on Promising and Self-Obligation (Rachel Cohon), 13 No Men Are Created Equal: Rank, Passions, and Virtues in Hume’s Treatise (Margaret Watkins), 14 The Eighteenth-Century British Reception of Hume’s A Treatise of Human Nature (Mark G. Spencer and Mikko Tolonen).