Reading Hume on Human Understanding Essays on the First Enquiry
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Biographical note
Peter Millican is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy and Computing at the University of Leeds.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
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.
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 . . . he [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, Times Literary Supplement