Hume's True Scepticism

David Hume is famous as a sceptical philosopher but the nature of his scepticism is difficult to pin down. Hume''s True Scepticism provides the first sustained interpretation of Part 4 of Book 1 of Hume''s Treatise, his deepest engagement with sceptical arguments. Hume notes there that, while reason shows that we ought not to believe the verdicts of reason or the senses, we do so nonetheless. Dona...