History of Philosophy in the 17th & 18th Centuries

Hume Resources

Hume's texts

Several editions of the Enquiry are available, including:

An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (Oxford Philosophical Texts) by David Hume, Tom L. Beauchamp Oxford, 1999, OUP.

Second hand copies all editions are generally available via Abebooks, which accesses most serious second-hand bookshops world wide and which I can warmly recommend.

Hume's Enquiry, and his other philosophically relevant writings, are available free on the web.

An excellent edition of the Enquiry has been prepared by Peter Millican of Leeds University. It is usefully bookmarked so I have been able to use it without futher editing for my presentations.
A plain text version of the Enquiry
A plain text version of Hume's A Treatise of Human Nature
I have used a copy of the plain text to introduce some formatting for display in lectures etc: Treatise with some special formatting

Introductions to Hume's thought include:

Saul Traiger (ed), The Blackwell Guide to Hume's Treatise, Malden USA etc, 2006, Blackwell
A.J.Ayer, Hume, Oxford, 1980, OUP Past Masters

General introductions available on-line include:

The Internet Encyclopaedia of Philosophy entry
The article on Hume in the Routledge Encyclopaedia of Philosophy is an authoritative outline and has an appropriate bibliography attached. This will take you further in various specialist directions.
Good introductory notes on Hume by G.J. Mattey

Hume web portals

Commentaries

Jerry A. Fodor, Hume Variations, Oxford, 203, OUP.
David Pears, Hume's System, Oxford, 1990, OUP
Stroud, Barry, Hume, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1977.
McNabb, D. G. C., David Hume, His Theory of Knowledge and Morality, Anchor Books, 1966.
Jerry A Fodor, Hume Variations, Oxford, 2003, OUP.

There are a great many more. A list of the main things is offered by Rom Bombardi.

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