Philosophy

Hume Reading Group

Description

David Hume, Treatise of Human Nature, ed. David Fate Norton and Mary J. Norton, student edition (Oxford: Oxford University Press).

Meetings will be held in the Dugald Stewart Building - room G.06 for the first meeting, room 3.10 all other meetings - from 11.00am – 12.30pm on the dates listed below. All welcome.

Reading Schedule (number of pages in brackets):

  • 24 May (Room G.06): Introduction and 1.1 (19)
  • 7 June (Room 3.10): 1.2 (26)
  • 8 June: 1.3.1-6 (15)
  • 9 June: 1.3.7-13 (39)
  • 14 June: 1.3.14-16 (15)
  • 15 June: 1.4.1-4 (31)
  • 16 June: 1.4.5-7 (26)
  • 28 June: 2.1 (32)
  • 29 June: 2.2 (42)
  • 30 June: 2.3 (33)
  • 12 July: 3.1 (13)
  • 13 July: 3.2 (59)
  • 14 July: 3.3 (28)

On hand to help us in reading Hume’s Treatise will be Hume experts:

  • Dr Peter Millican (Illumni David Hume Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh)
  • Professor Don Garrett (Carnegie Centenary Professor, University of Edinburgh)

For more information, email Ashley Taylor.

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