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Impressions of Hume is an interdisciplinary volume of new essays from leading scholars on the work of David Hume. To some his writings are vehicles for intuitions, problems, and arguments which are at the centre of contemporary philosophical reflection, others locate Hume's views against the background of concerns and debates of his own time. Hume's texts may be read as highly sophisticated literary-cum-philosophical creations, or as moments i...

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A rich and original examination of Hume's discussion of the idea of space.

Hume's discussion of the idea of space in his Treatise on Human Nature is fundamental to an understanding of his treatment of such central issues as the existence of external objects, the unity of the self, the relation between certainty and belief, and abstract ideas. Marina Frasca-Spada's rich and original study examines this difficult part of Hume's philosophical writings and connects it to eighteenth-century works in natural philosophy, ma...