Saul Traiger 
The Blackwell Guide to Hume’s Treatise 

This Guide provides students with the scholarly and
interpretive tools they need to understand Hume’s A
Treatise of Human Nature and its influence on modern
philosophy.

* * A student guide to Hume’s A Treatise of Human
Nature.

* Focuses on recent developments in Hume scholarship.

* Covers topics such as the formulation, reception and scope of
the Treatise, imagination and memory, the passions, moral
sentiments, and the role of sympathy.

* All the chapters are newly written by Hume scholars.

* Each chapter guides the reader through a portion of the
Treatise, explaining the central arguments and key
contemporary interpretations of those arguments.

Table of Content

Notes on Contributors.

References to the Threatise, Abstract, and Enquiries.

Editor’s Introduction.

Part I: Formulation, Reception and Scope of the
Treatise:.

1. The Treatise: Composition, Reception and Response: John
Wright (Central Michigan University).

2. Hume’s Other Writings:Wade Robison (Rochester Institute
of Technology).

Part II: The Understanding:.

3. Impressions and Ideas: Janet Broughton (University of
California, Berkeley).

4. Space and Time: Lorne Falkenstein (University of Western
Ontario).

5. Belief, Probability, Normativity: William Edward Morris
(Illinois Wesleyan University).

6. Causation: Abraham Sesshu Roth (University of Illinois at
Chicago).

7. Identity, Continued Existence, and the External World: Don
Baxter (University of Connecticut).

8. Personal Identity and the Sceptical System of Philosophy:
Corliss Gayda Swain (St. Olaf College).

9. Hume’s Conclusions in ‘Conclusion of this
Book’: Don Garrett (New York University).

Part III: The Passions:.

10. The Powers and Mechanisms of the Passions: Lilli Alanen
(Uppsala University).

11. Hume’s ‘New and Extraordinary’ Account of
the Passions: Jane Mc Intyre (Cleveland State University).

12. Liberty, Necessity and the Will: Tony Pitson (University of
Stirling).

Part IV: Morals:.

13. Reason, Passion and the Influencing Motives of the Will:
Mike Karlsson (University of Iceland).

14. Hume’s Artificial and Natural Virtues: Rachel Cohon
(University at Albany, State University of New York).

15. Virtue and the Evaluation of Character: Jacqueline Taylor
(University of San Francisco).

Index

About the author

Saul Traiger is Professor of Philosophy at Occidental College in Los Angeles, California. He is the past president of the Hume Society, and has published numerous articles and reviews on Hume’s metaphysics and epistemology, as well as articles in contemporary epistemology, philosophy of mind, and the foundations of cognitive science.