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THE PURSUITS OF PHILOSOPHY Brought to you by | University of Michigan Authenticated Download Date | 6/30/15 6:40 PM Brought to you by | University of Michigan Authenticated Download Date | 6/30/15 6:40 PM PURSUI TS T H E O F PHILOSOPH Y An Introduction to the Life and Thought of David Hume Annette C. Baier HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS Cambridge, Massachusetts, and London, Eng land 2011 Brought to you by | University of Michigan Authenticated Download Date | 6/30/15 6:40 PM Copyright © 2011 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College all rights reserved Printed in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloging- in- Publication Data Baier, Annette. The pursuits of philosophy : an introduction to the life and thought of David Hume / Annette C. Baier. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and indexes. ISBN 978- 0- 674- 06168- 2 (alk. paper) 1. Hume, David, 1711– 1776. I. Title. B1498.B25 2011 192—dc22 2011012315 Brought to you by | University of Michigan Authenticated Download Date | 6/30/15 6:40 PM CONTENTS Introduction 1 1 Childhood and Youth: Loss of Faith and a Passion for Literature 6 2 “At a Distance from Relations”: Writing His Treatise in France 15 3 Hume after the Treatise 55 4 Hume as Librarian and Historian 84 5 Hume’s Life as a Man in the Public Eye 102 6 Hume’s Final Years in Edinburgh 116 v Brought to you by | University of Michigan Authenticated Download Date | 6/30/15 6:41 PM CONTENTS 7 Death and Character 124 Afterword 134 Annotated Bibliography 147 Further Reading 151 Ac know ledg ments 155 Name Index 157 Subject Index 161 vi Brought to you by | University of Michigan Authenticated Download Date | 6/30/15 6:41 PM NOTE ON REFERENCES Hume’s works in the text will observe the following abbreviations: E Enquiries Concerning Human Understanding and Concerning the Principles of Morals, 3rd ed., edited by L. A. Selby- Bigge, revised text and notes by P. H. Nidditch (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1975), giving page number. Ess Essays Moral, Po liti cal, and Literary, edited by Eugene Miller (Indianapolis: Liberty Press, 1985), giving page number. H A History of En gland, 6 vols. (Indianapolis: Liberty Press, 1983), giving volume number and page number. L Letters of David Hume, 2 vols., edited by J. Y. T. Greig (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1939– 1969), giving volume number and page number. vii Brought to you by | University of Michigan Authenticated Download Date | 6/30/15 6:41 PM NOTE ON REFERENCES NL New Letters of David Hume, edited by Raymond Klibansky and Ernest C. Mossner (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1954), giving page number. T A Treatise of Human Nature, 2nd ed., edited by L. A. Selby- Bigge, revised text and variant readings by P. H. Nidditch (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1978), giving page number. viii Brought to you by | University of Michigan Authenticated Download Date | 6/30/15 6:41 PM THE PURSUITS OF PHILOSOPHY Brought to you by | University of Michigan Authenticated Download Date | 6/30/15 6:41 PM Brought to you by | University of Michigan Authenticated Download Date | 6/30/15 6:41 PM
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