Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Preface
List of Abbreviations
Part I. Easy and Obvious
Chapter 1. Acting in Character
Chapter 2. Impersonation, the Very Idea
Chapter 3. Hume’s Excellent Hypocrites
Chapter 4. Hume’s Treatment of Oliver Cromwell
Chapter 5. Hume and the Conformity of Bishop Tunstal
Chapter 6. Hume’s Deathbed Reading: A Tale of Three Letters
Part II. More Difficult and Abstruse
Chapter 7. Hume’s Impressions and His Other Metaphors
Chapter 8. The Life and Mortality of the Mind
Chapter 9. Hume’s Labyrinth
Chapter 10. A Voice, as from the Next Room
Chapter 11. The Energy in the Cause
Chapter 12. Hume’s Post-Impressionism
Chapter 13. Why Hume Asked Us Not to Read the Treatise
Conclusion: Hume’s Curriculum Vitae:
His “Own Life,” Written by Himself
Index of Persons
Subject Index