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 co-author of Logic Works: A Rigorous Introduction to Formal Logic (Routledge: 2022), co-editor of the Broadview editions of Hume’s Enquires, Dissertation, and Natural History (2011-13), and has written many articles on early modern philosophy.