Reading Hume on Human Understanding: Essays on the First Enquiry
"Peter Millican'sReading Hume on Human Understandingis a comprehensive overview of the philosophy of the firstEnquiryand of the secondary literature on that work... future scholars will be able to review an outstanding collection of summary descriptions of books and articles on Hume and the firstEnquiry, and will be that much more quickly able to focus their research and inform their reflections. We all owe him for that...In sum, this is a very valuable book, which succeeds admirably in its aim of providing a guide to advanced study of the firstEnquiry. It would be an excellent choice for a graduate seminar, and it deserves to be on every Hume scholar's reference shelf."--Hume Studies"Hume's Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding presents in elegant essay form many of the doctrines of Book One ofA Treatise of Human Nature...[Millican] has with this collection, made it easier to discern the various ways in which Hume's second thoughts on human understanding differ from his first."--Times Literary Supplement