Consciousness, Time, and Scepticism in Hume's Thought

David Hume's philosophical work presents the reader with a perplexing mix of constructive accounts of empirically guided belief and destructive sceptical arguments against all belief. This book reconciles this conflict by showing that Hume intended his scepticism to be remedial.

Lorne Falkenstein is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at Western University, Canada. He is a cöauthor of Logic Works: A Rigorous Introduction to Formal Logic (Routledge: 2022), cöeditor of the Broadview editions of Hume's Enquires, Dissertation, and Natural History (2011-13), and has written many articles on early modern philosophy.

Introduction. Hume's remedy for unphilosophical belief 1. Impressions: colour, consciousness, temporal experience 2. Finite divisibility; manners of disposition; points 3. Time and our experience of time 4. Identity 5. The conception and perception of a vacuum 6. Belief: normativity; objects 7. Causes of the belief in bodies 8. Reasons for scepticism about the external existence of bodies Conclusion. Hume's remedy