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.