Individual volumes include interpretive introductions and explanatory notes. In addition to a discussion of the Treatise and Abstract , the introductory material in these editions includes 'How to use this book', an interpretive essay, and suggestions for further reading. Like the Clarendon editions, the Oxford Philosophical Text editions number the paragraphs of self-contained parts or sections of Hume's texts, providing the basis for standardization of references to these texts. The student edition of the Treatise and the Abstract , edited by David Fate Norton and Mary J. Norton, is currently in press. Although the Clarendon Edition of these works will run to two volumes, the student edition is fitted into a single volume of about 650 pages.
Introductory material includes suggestions on how to use the book and for further reading.
The Editors' Annotations offer, along with textual summaries and explications of difficult passages, greatly amplified cross-references, identifications of the many unnamed earlier authors to whom Hume alludes, and information about the philosophical context of the Treatise . The first of the new Clarendon editions of Hume's texts to appear was An Enquiry concerning the Principles of Morals , edited by Beauchamp. An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding , making up Volume 3 of the Clarendon edition, is expected to appear in mid-2000. These volumes include historical and bibliographical materials of the sort found in the Clarendon EPM . An Enquiry concerning the Principles of Morals , ed.