Reading Hume on Human Understanding: Essays on the First Enquiry Book

	Notes on Contributors
	Abbreviations for Works by Hume
	Preface and Acknowledgements
	Introduction	1
1	The Context, Aims, and Structure of Hume's First Enquiry	27
2	Two Species of Philosophy : The Historical Significance of the First Enquiry	67
3	Empiricism about Meanings	97
4	Hume's Sceptical Doubts concerning Induction	107
5	Belief and Instinct in Hume's First Enquiry	175
6	Hume, Belief, and Personal Identity	187
7	The Idea of Necessary Connexion	211
8	David Hume: Objects and Power	231
9	Hume and Thick Connexions	259
10	Hume on Liberty and Necessity	277
11	Hume on Testimony concerning Miracles	301
12	Hume versus Price on Miracles and Prior Probabilities: Testimony and the Bayesian Calculation	335
13	Religion: The Useless Hypothesis	349
14	Of the Academical or Sceptical Philosophy	371
	My Own Life	393
	Abstract of the Treatise of Human Nature	399
	Critical Survey of the Literature on Hume and the First Enquiry	413
	Index	475