Wednesday, June 8, 2016

An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume


Primary Sources:

1) Hume, David. Enquiries Concerning Human Understanding and Concerning the Principle of Morals. Ed. L.A. Selby-Bigge and P.H. Nidditch. 3rd. ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1975. Print.


2) Hume, David. An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding: And Other Writings. Ed. Stephen
Buckle. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Print.


3) Hume, David. An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding: And Other Writings. Ed. Peter Millican. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. Print.


4)  Hume, David. An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding: And Other Writings. Ed. Tom L. Beauchamp. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. Print.


5) Hume, David. An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding: with Hume's Abstract of A Treatise of Human Nature and A Letter from a Gentleman to His Friend in Edinburgh. Ed. Eric Steinberg. 2nd. ed. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing, 1993. Print.


6) Hume, David. "An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding." Project Gutenberg. Project Gutenberg, November 15, 2011. Web.


7) Librivox has an audiobook free for downloading in the USA.  Check your local laws to make sure you are not violating them by downloading this if outside the USA.

Secondary Sources:

Books:

1) Buckle, Stephen. Hume's Enlightenment Tract: The Unity and Purpose of An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. Print. 


2) Millican, Peter., ed. Reading Hume on Human Understanding: Essays on the First Enquiry. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. Print.


3) Holden, Thomas. Spectres of False Divinity: Hume's Moral Atheism. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. Print.


4) Owen, David. Hume's Reason. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. Print.


5) Russell, Paul. Freedom and Moral Sentiment: Hume's Way of Naturalizing Philosophy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. Print.


6) Read, Rupert, and Kenneth A. Richman., ed. " The New Hume Debate: Revised Edition. London: Routledge, 2000. Print.

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7) Stroud, Barry. Hume (Arguments of the Philosophers). London: Routledge, 1977. Print.

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Journal Articles:

An excellent source for secondary journal articles on all things related to David Hume can be located in the journal "Hume Studies."  The ISSN for this journal is 0319-7336.  The Hume Society, which holds the rights to this journal, has graciously made available, free for public consumption, several volumes from the years 2005-2009.  Click the link below to view these volumes for free.


More journal articles not available in the free volumes linked above.

1) Fields, Lloyd. "Hume on Responsibility." Hume Studies 14.1 (1988): 161-175. Web.

2) Fogelin, Robert J. "What Hume Actually Said About Miracles." Hume Studies 16.1 (1990): 81-86. Web.

3) Immerwahr, John. "Hume's Dissertation on the Passions." Journal of the History of Philosophy 32.2 (1994): 225-240. Web.

4) Kuehn, Manfred. "Kant's Conception of "Hume's Problem." Journal of the History of Philosophy 21.2 (1983): 175-193. Web.

5) Bunzl, Martin. "Humean Counterfactuals." Journal of the History of Philosophy 20.2 (1982): 171-177. Web.

6) Buckle, Stephen. "Hume's Preference for the Enquiry: A Reply to Miller." British Journal for the History of Philosophy 21.6 (2013): 1219-1229. Web.

7) Miller, Jon C. "A Treatise vs. An Enquiry: Omissions and Distortions by the New Humeans." British Journal of Philosophy 20.5 (2012): 1015-1026. Web.

8) Millican, Peter. "Hume, Causal Realism, and Causal Science." Mind 118.471 (2009): 647-712. Web.

9) Hill, James. "How Hume Became the "New Hume": A Development Approach." The Journal of Scottish Philosophy 10.2 (2012): 163-181. Web.

10) Wright, John P. "Scepticism, Causal Science and "The Old Hume." The Journal of Scottish Philosophy 10.2 (2012): 123-142. Web.

11) Hakkarainen, Jani. "Why Hume Cannot be a Realist." The Journal of Scottish Philosophy 10.2 (2012): 143-161. Web.


Podcasts:

1) The following link will take you to the BBC sponsored podcast "In Our Time."  This particular one is dedicated to David Hume.



2) The following link will take you to The Partially Examined Life podcast about David Hume. There is a 30:51 snippet of this podcast.  If one wants to listen to the entire thing, then a subscription may be required.

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Video:

1) This video lecture series is presented by Dan Robinson of Oxford.  He examines Hume's philosophical enquiries through the critiques of Thomas Reid.  This series is kind of a two for one, in that, we are presented with Reid's views as well as Hume.  In any event, the series is valuable for all levels.


2) An introductory overview of Hume's philosophy.  This series does not go into any significant depth, however.  So, this series is best viewed by the novice who has had no prior knowledge about Hume's ideas.



3) This lecture series is presented by Peter Millican of Oxford.  This series provides an overview of Hume's philosophy without sacrificing depth.  This series is worthwhile for people with previous engagement with Hume or for the novice who is picking it up for the first time.

***Click here to go to this lecture series

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