Historical Dictionary of Hume's Philosophy

Hume is probably one of the best‐known and most‐studied philosophers in English. As a result there is plenty about him in reference sources and online. So much in fact that approaching a work like this historical dictionary to Hume's work, we must look for the rationale of Merrill's approach. It is that the non‐specialist, approaching Hume's work perhaps for the first time, will need orientation – to the eighteenth century context in which Hume lived and worked (he was born in 1711 and died in 1776), to his main ideas and what shaped and them and his impact afterwards, and...