Reading Hume on Human Understanding

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In sum, this is a very valuable book, which succeeds admirably in its aim of providing a guide to advanced study of the first Enquiry. It would be an excellent choice for a graduate seminar, and it deserves to be on every Hume scholar's reference shelf. * Lorne Falkenstein, Hume Studies * Peter Millican's Reading Hume on Human Understanding is a comprehensive overview of the philosophy of the first Enquiry and of the secondary literature on that work. ... [It] incorporates contributions from a number of the people whose names have come to be closely associated with work on the different sections of the first Enquiry. * Lorne Falkenstein, Hume Studies * Millican has gone to considerable time and effort . . . we should be grateful for all his hard work. The critical survey is particularly useful. * Peter Kail, Mind * [M. A. Stewart's] essay is a particular treat . . . though all the new essays are of good quality. * Peter Kail, Mind * The volume ... concludes with Millican's extremely useful critical survey of the literature on Hume and the first Enquiry ... The wealth of material contained in this volume makes it a valuable addition to the literature on Hume's epistemology and metaphysics both in the Enquiry and elsewhere. * The Philosophical Quarterly * Given the range and quality of the papers which make up Millican's volume, it . . . provides an important resource for students of Hume's philosophy in general, and not only for those whose special interest is his Enquiry. * The Philosophical Quarterly * Hume's Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding presents in elegant essay form many of the doctrines of Book One of A 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. * James A. Harris, TLS *