Hume's Scepticism and the Science of Human Nature

This book explores the relationship between Hume''s sceptical philosophy and his Newtonian ambition of founding a science of human nature. Assessing both received and ''new'' readings of Hume''s philosophy, Stanistreet offers a line of interpretation which, he argues, makes sense of many of the apparent conflicts and paradoxes in Hume''s work and describes how well-known controversies concerning H...