This is the first book to fully document the most influential contemporary readings of Hume's work. This revised paperback edition includes three new chapters.

Notes on contributors; Preface; Preface to the New Edition; Acknowledgements and permissions; Reference notes 1. Debating the New Hume Kenneth Richman 2. 'Gilding or staining' the world with 'sentiments' and 'phantasms' Barry Stroud 3. David Hume: Objects and power Galen Strawson 4. The New Hume Kenneth P. Winkler 5. Hume's causal realism: recovering a traditional interpretation John P. Wright 6. Hume and thick connexions Simon Blackburn 7. Hume on causality: projectivist and realist? Edward Craig 8. Sceptical doubts concerning Hume's causal realism Martin Bell 9. Relative ideas re-viewed Daniel Flage 10. From cognitive science to a post-Cartesian text; what did Hume really say? Anne Jaap Jacobson 11. The new antagonists of 'the New Hume': on the relevance of Goodman and Wittgenstein to the New Hume debate Rupert Read 12. "Our Aim in All Our Studies" Janet Broughton 13. Against the New Hume Peter Millican 14. How to understand Hume's realism P.J.E. Kail; Bibliography; Citation index; Name index; Subject index