Hume's Epistemology in the Treatise

Frederick F. Schmitt offers a systematic interpretation of David Hume''s epistemology, as it is presented in the indispensable A Treatise of Human Nature. Hume''s text alternately manifests scepticism, empiricism, and naturalism in epistemology. Interpretations of his epistemology have tended to emphasise one of these apparently conflicting positions over the others. But Schmitt argues that the po...