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Hume's Epistemology and Metaphysics: An Introduction

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I strongly recommend you to read this book if you wanna know Hume's philosophy but have never read anything about him, that is, it is a very good introduction to Hume. For Dicker makes very "clear and concise" what's going on especailly Hume's Inquiry and the First Book of the Treatise. And he also explains basic and important concepts of epistemology and metaphysics with relation to Hume. Thus it's understandable even to those who don't know anything about philosophy. And moreover he uses very plain and easy English, which even non-native speakers of English can easily understand (in realily, I'm not a native of English). But it might be a little boring or too easy if you have already studied much about Hume. However even in that case it will be good if you wanna brush up your understanding of Hume or even epistemology and metaphysics in general. And also the auther, namely Geroges Dick, publishes another book on philosophy, whose title is "Descartes: an analytical and historical introduction". I also read this one. And this is also very good. So if you are a philosophy student , I also recommend you to read this one.

As a graduate student studying for comprehensive exams, Dicker's book provided me with a clear and through exposition/commentary on Hume. The book is very accessible, enjoyable to read, and leaves the reader with a thirst for learning even more about Hume.

This is a superb introduction to Hume's thought on the problems of human knowledge. The prose is clear, the analysis insightful, and the opinions are very helpful for the beginner as well as for the Hume scholar.

I also highly recommend Professor Dicker's books on Kant and Descartes.

This is a well informed and well written textbook presentation of standard metaphysical and epistemological problems from the standpoint of analytic philosophy. Its arguments are carefully spelled out and very clear, but Hume's writings are far more exciting than this book suggests.