David Hume's Essays and Treatises: The Final Revision (original) (raw)

Review of David Hume, Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary - Beauchamp & Box, eds.

Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, 2023

The new two volume edition of Hume’s Essays, Moral, Political and Literary, edited by Tom Beauchamp and Mark Box, is the first critical edition.[3] What primarily distinguishes a critical edition is that it collates the copy-text with all other editions and provides a complete record of variations in the texts. Beauchamp and Box provide readers with detailed, informative notes and annotations that describe the variations and revisions that have been made to the Essays published within Hume’s lifetime. They also provide a table that catalogues the contents of the various editions from 1741 to 1771 and several helpful appendixes relating to their publication. The final text of the essays has been carefully edited and annotated. The second volume contains the editors’ extensive annotations, which are both informed and illuminating. All the editorial work has been done with enormous attention to detail and precision....

Hume's life and works

To be published in Paul Russell (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Hume. Argues that Hume's career should be seen as that of a highly successful eighteenth-century man of letters, not as that of a would-be academic philosopher frustrated by incomprehension and intolerance.

A Bibliography of Hume's Writings and Early Responses

This document contains two separate bibliographies. The first is a “Bibliography of Hume’s Writings” that I constructed for my own benefit while preparing the Early Responses to Hume series. The second is “A Bibliography of Early Responses to Hume,” which is taken directly from the final pages of Early Responses to Hume’s Life and Reputation (2005).

The Cambridge Companion to Hume (review)

Journal of the History of Philosophy, 1995

This excellent anthology, which has already emerged as an oft-cited source in Hume scholarship, is a first rate collection of essays. With certainty that the community of Hume scholars are already engaged in discussion of the particular points of the individual essays, this review provides an overview of the collection and its value for a broad audience. The Cambridge Companion to

Hume's Foundational Project in the Treatise--European Journal of Philosophy (2013)

In the Introduction to the Treatise Hume very enthusiastically announces his project to provide a secure and solid foundation for the sciences by grounding them on his science of man. And Hume indicates in the Abstract that he carries out this project in the Treatise. But most interpreters do not believe that Hume's project comes to fruition. In this paper,