Early Responses to Hume's 'History Of England'

Early Responses to Hume's 'History Of England'
Author: James Fieser
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 420
Release: 2005-03-01
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9781843711193

This is the first systematic presentation of eighteenth and nineteenth-century criticisms of Hume's History. Most of the fifty-four selections appear here for the first time since their original publication, and include a new translation of the 1755 review of Hume's History from the German Gottingische Anzeigen, and the complete texts of Daniel MacQueen's Letters on Mr. Hume's History of Great Britain (1756). There are also contributions from Joseph Towers, Tobias Smollett, Adam Smith, William Enfield, Francis Jeffrey and many others.

Early Responses to Hume’s History of England: Part 2

Early Responses to Hume’s History of England: Part 2
Author: James Fieser
Publisher: James Fieser
Total Pages: 408
Release: 2021-04-20
Genre: History
ISBN:

This work is the eighth in the 10-volume series "Early Responses to Hume", which is an edited and annotated collection of eighteenth-and nineteenth-century critical reactions to Scottish philosopher David Hume (1711-1776) . Both a philosopher and historian, he was infamous in his day for his skeptical views on human nature, knowledge, metaphysics, and religion.

Early Responses to Hume’s History of England: Part 1

Early Responses to Hume’s History of England: Part 1
Author: James Fieser
Publisher: James Fieser
Total Pages: 410
Release: 2021-04-20
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN:

This work is the seventh in the 10-volume series "Early Responses to Hume", which is an edited and annotated collection of eighteenth-and nineteenth-century critical reactions to Scottish philosopher David Hume (1711-1776) . Both a philosopher and historian, he was infamous in his day for his skeptical views on human nature, knowledge, metaphysics, and religion.

Early Responses to Hume’s Life and Reputation: Part 2

Early Responses to Hume’s Life and Reputation: Part 2
Author: James Fieser
Publisher: James Fieser
Total Pages: 482
Release: 2021-04-20
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

This work is the last in the 10-volume series "Early Responses to Hume", which is an edited and annotated collection of eighteenth-and nineteenth-century critical reactions to Scottish philosopher David Hume (1711-1776) . Both a philosopher and historian, he was infamous in his day for his skeptical views on human nature, knowledge, metaphysics, and religion.

Early Responses to Hume's Life And Reputation

Early Responses to Hume's Life And Reputation
Author: James Fieser
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 468
Release: 2005-03-01
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9781843711155

This set presents dozens of early biographically-related discussions of Hume in their most complete form, reset, annotated and introduced by James Fieser. It includes anecdotes, discussions of Hume as an infidel, and fictitious dialogues in which Hume is a character. It also contains newly discovered accounts of Hume's alleged secret deathbed anguish, and the most detailed bibliography yet of eighteenth and nineteenth-century responses to Hume. The final volume concludes with an index to the complete ten-volume collection.