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|Abstract=Each Cambridge Companion to a philosophical figure is madeup of specially commissioned essays by an international teamof scholars, providing students and nonspecialists with an introductionto a major philosopher. The series aims to dispel theintimidation that readers may feel when faced with the work ofa challenging thinker.David Hume is now considered one of the most importantphilosophers of the Western world. Although best known for hiscontributions to the theory of knowledge, metaphysics, and philosophyof religion, Hume also influenced developments in thephilosophy of mind, psychology, ethics, political and economictheory, political and social history, and aesthetic theory. The fifteenessays in this volume address all aspects of Hume’s thought.The picture of him that emerges is that of a thinker who, thoughoften critical to the point of skepticism, was nonetheless able tobuild on that skepticism a constructive, viable, and profoundlyimportant view of the world. Also included in this volume areHume’s two brief autobiographies and a bibliography suited tothose beginning their study of Hume.This second edition of one of our most popular Companionsincludes six new essays and a new introduction; the remainingessays have all been revised and updated.