Hume, David

Hume, David Links

• Scottish Contribution to the Enlightenment An Electronic Seminars in History Presentation by Dr. John Robertson, Oxford University. Includes some discussion of Hume's contributions.
  
• Philosophy Net Links to numerous sites, including Hume.
  
• Chronology of 18th-19th Century British Religion and Philosophy A simple chronology of major events and figures in religion and philosophy in Great Britain from 1651 to 1872. It may help to place Hume in a timeline. Hume appears on the list twice only - with no links to work. Part of a web project of the Brown University Scholarly Technology Group (STG).
  
• Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding One of Hume's best known works, it explains that there is no knowledge other than what is directly observed.
  
• Björn's Guide To Hume Short biographical entry with some additional links.
  
• EpistemeLinks.com Philosophy resources on the net: David Hume (1711-1776).
  
• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy/Hume A relatively brief, scholarly, critical analysis of the life, influence and philosophy of David Hume from the Stanford University Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Stanford say the project (begun in 1995)is dynamic but fixed editions (quarterly) are archived for academic citation.
  
• Squashed Hume The condensed edition of Hume's Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding.
  
• Hume: An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding Text of Hume's argument that experience cannot lead to a knowledge of necessary relations. Part of a Miniature Library of Philosophy site. Includes short biography and comments by Husserl on Hume.
  
• James Willard Oliver David Hume Collection Brief description of the University of South Carolina's James Willard Oliver Collection of early editions of Hume's works and of extensive holdings of scholarship about his life and thought.
  
• Selected Essays by Hume Four essays from Hume's 1748 "Essays, Moral and Political" in HTML and text formats.
  
• Of the Standard of Taste Online edition of Hume's 1760 work.
  
• Hume Studies Subscription based (about $25-$30 per year) interdisciplinary scholarly journal dedicated to the thought of David Hume (the journal is included in annual Hume Society membership). Details of where to obtain this journal plus a list of the Volumes, articles and authors available, with dates can be found from this URL.
  
• Hume Family Home Page (Hume, Home, De Hume, De Home, Humes) Genealogy and history of the Hume/Home surname and variations. Includes links to related sites.
  
• InteLex's Past Masters Series: David Hume Commercial site for purchasing Hume's complete works in electronic format. InteLex Corporation's Past Masters series represents the largest collection of electronic texts in philosophy in the world. A good bibliography of Hume's works is available at this site.
  
• Treatise of Human Nature Full text of Hume's "A Treatise of Human Nature: Being an Attempt to Introduce the Experimental Method of Reasoning into Moral Subjects".
  
• The Hume Archives A repository of electronic texts (in HTML, text, and RTF formats) by and about David Hume.
  
• Hume Links Links to works by and about David Hume.
  
• Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding Full e-text of this work including footnotes, well organised by chapter, title and part number. Works by many other philosophers are available from this site.
  
• Malaspina Great Books: David Hume Hume links compiled by Russell McNeil.
  
• Garth Kemerling's Philosophy Pages: Hume A brief discussion of the life and works of David Hume, with links to electronic texts and additional information. Part of an ambitious and well-arranged philosophy site.
  
• English Server Philosophy Texts: David Hume Hume's canonical philosophic texts available on-line in The English Server (eserver.org), Carnegie Mellon's member-run Internet cooperative.
  
• Hume in McCosh's Scottish Philosophy Chapter 19: David Hume, 1711-1776. From James McCosh's important history of "The Scottish Philosophy." The full text of McCosh's book is accessible from this page.
  
• Fieser's Comment on William Davis on Hume and Reid Text of James Fieser's "Comment on William C. Davis's 'Hume and Reid on the Possibility of a Relational Moral Ontology'." APA Central Division Annual Meeting, 1993.
  
• David Hume Discussion Forum Discussion forum and live chat devoted to the life and works of David Hume.
  
• The Hume Society International scholarly society (founded in 1974) devoted to the study of David Hume (1711-1776).
  
• Leeds Electronic Text Centre Hume Project An ambitious site (started May 2000), maintained by Leeds University, UK. The university aims to provide a permanent free resource (therefore one safe to use as reference notes for academic works), for the study of Hume, including authenticated texts, bibliographic materials and links to other Hume resources.
  
• Great Books Index: David Hume An index to online editions (HTML and text versions) of four of Hume's works.