"The New Hume Debate" is the first book to discuss the topic of whether Hume is a skeptic or a skeptical realist. It includes essays by philosophers and Hume scholars such as Barry Stroud and Galen Strawson.

Notes on contributors; Preface; Preface to the New Edition; Acknowledgements and permissions; Reference notes1. Debating the New Hume Kenneth Richman2. 'Gilding or staining' the world with 'sentiments' and 'phantasms' Barry Stroud3. David Hume: Objects and power Galen Strawson4. The New Hume Kenneth P. Winkler5. Hume's causal realism: recovering a traditional interpretation John P. Wright6. Hume and thick connexions Simon Blackburn7. Hume on causality: projectivist and realist? Edward Craig8. Sceptical doubts concerning Hume's causal realism Martin Bell9. Relative ideas re-viewed Daniel Flage10. From cognitive science to a post-Cartesian text; what did Hume really say? Anne Jaap Jacobson11. The new antagonists of 'the New Hume': on the relevance of Goodman and Wittgenstein to the New Hume debate Rupert Read12. Our Aim in All Our Studies Janet Broughton13. Against the New Hume Peter Millican14. How to understand Hume's realism P.J.E. Kail; Bibliography; Citation index; Name index; Subject index