Hume's A Treatise of Human Nature

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A Critical Guide

Elizabeth S. Radcliffe (College of William and Mary, Virginia)

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Cambridge University Press
08 January 2026

Western philosophy: Enlightenment; Analytical philosophy & Logical Positivism; Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology; Philosophy of mind; History of ideas

Series: Cambridge Critical Guides

David Hume's A Treatise of Human Nature, published anonymously in 1739–40, was his first major work of philosophy, and his only systematic, scientific analysis of human nature. It is now regarded as a classic text in the history of Western thought and a key text in philosophical empiricism, scepticism, and naturalism. This Critical Guide offers fourteen new essays on the work by established and emerging Hume scholars, ranging over Hume's epistemology and philosophy of mind, the passions and ethics, and the early reception of the Treatise. Topics include the significance of Hume's treatment of the passion of curiosity, the critical responses to Hume's account of how we acquire belief in external objects, and Hume's depiction of the human tendency to view the world in inegalitarian ways and its impact on our view of virtue. The volume will be valuable for scholars and students of Hume studies and in eighteenth-century philosophy more generally.

Edited by: Elizabeth S. Radcliffe (College of William and Mary Virginia)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Weight: 611g
ISBN: 9781009218092
ISBN 10: 1009218093
Series: Cambridge Critical Guides
Pages: 308
Publication Date: 08 January 2026
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Elizabeth S. Radcliffe is Professor Emerita in the Department of Philosophy at William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia. She is author of Hume on the Nature of Morality (2022) and of Hume, Passion, and Action (2018).