Hume

Treatise of Human Nature

The great skeptic. His argument that causation is a habit of mind rather than a feature of reality 'awoke Kant from his dogmatic slumber.' The most important philosopher in the empiricist tradition.

Key works

• A Treatise of Human Nature1739— Fell dead-born from the press
• An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding1748— The accessible version

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