Experience and Ideas (David Hume)

Discussion of David Hume's (1748) An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding. (~80-90 pages)

We will consider Hume's thoughts on the origins of human knowledge and its relationship to experience. The obligatory relationship of knowing with experiencing poses interesting problems and constraints on what can be known and how.

This reading will be the first of a series on thought and epistemology

Download: An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding [PDF]