The Letter to Strahan is an ostensible letter that Adam Smith wrote on the last days, death, and character of his closest friend, the philosopher David Hume, and published alongside Hume's autobiography, My Own Life, in 1777. Other than his two books, it is the only work that Smith published under h[...]

This book explores the reception of David Hume's political thought in eighteenth-century America. It presents a challenge to standard interpretations that assume Hume's thought had little influence in early America. Eighteenth-century Americans are often supposed to have ignored Hume's philosophical[...]

David Hume (1711-1776) was the most important philosopher ever to write in English, as well as a master stylist. This volume contains his major philosophical works. A Treatise of Human Nature (1739-1740), published while Hume was still in his twenties, consists of three books on the understanding, t[...]

Med den tredje delen av Avhandling om den mänskliga naturen avslutar Hume sitt projekt att utveckla en samlad teori om alla viktiga aspekter av mänskligt tänkande och handlande.

I början av Om Moralen ger Hume den klassiska formuleringen av en princip som haft och har mycket stort[...]