Hume Book

Abbreviations     x
Acknowledgements     xiii
Introduction     1
Life and Works of David Hume     3
Publication Time-Line     11
Intellectual Heritage     14
The Growth of Science     14
Empiricism and Rationalism     15
Main Influences     17
Descartes     18
Malebranche     18
Newton     20
Locke     21
Berkeley     22
Bayle     24
Summary     25
Approach to Philosophy     28
Definition of Philosophy     28
Characterization of the Present State of Philosophy     29
The Science of Human Nature     30
The experimental method     32
Summary     35
Operations of the Mind     37
The Copy Principle     38
Two examples in support of the Copy Principle     40
The case of the missing shade of blue     41
Impressions and ideas further classified     44
The Separability Principle     46
Principles of the Association of Ideas     47
Relations     49
Substance and mode     50
Abstract ideas     53
Summary     56
Space and Time     58
Against the Infinite Divisibility of Space and Time     58
The Origin of our Ideas of Space and Time     61
The Vacuum     63
Three Objections Considered     67
Space, Time and the Copy Principle     72
Cause and Effect     78
The Relation of Cause and Effect     78
Why a Cause Is Always Necessary     82
The Inference from Cause to Effect     84
The reason of animals     88
Belief     89
The causes of belief     92
The influence of belief     94
Probability     94
Rules to Judge Causes and Effects     96
Kant's 'Reply" to Hume     98
Necessary Connection     105
The Idea of Necessary Connection     105
Liberty and Necessity     110
Moral and Religious Implications of Necessity     113
The Imaginary Standard of a Necessary Connection     115
Summary     134
Scepticism     139
Scepticism about Reason     139
The Existence of External Objects      142
Senses     142
Reason     144
Imagination     145
Ancient Philosophy     151
Modern Philosophy     152
The Immaterial Soul     154
Personal Identity     157
Effects of Scepticism on Philosophy     161
Scepticism and the Science of Human Nature     165
Bibliography     169
Index     174