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Here are some classical readings in the history of philosophy which are relevant to the material in Philosophy 174.

• Hume’s Writings
• Hume Texts Online

• Predecessors
• Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679)
• Selection from Of Liberty and Necessity (1654)
• John Locke (1632-1704)
• An Essay concerning Human Understanding (1690)
• Contemporaries
• Isaac Newton (1642-1727)
• “Rules of Reasoning in Philosophy,” from Book III of Principia Mathematica (1729)
• George Berkeley (1685-1753)
• A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge (1710)
• Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous (1713)
• Samuel Clarke (1679-1725)
• From A Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God (1705)
• Francis Hutcheson (1694-1746)
• An Inquiry into the Original of our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue (1725)
• Thomas Reid (1710-1796)
• Enquiry into the Human Mind, Introduction
• Essay on The Intellectual Powers of Man(1785), Essay II, Chapter XII, Of the Sentiments of Mr Hume
• Essays on the Active Powers of the Human Mind (1788), Essay I, Chapter VI, Of Mr Hume’s Opinion of the Idea of Power
• Successors
• Thomas Brown (1778-1820)
  • Observations on the Nature and Tendency of the Doctrine of Mr. Hume, Concerning the Relation of Cause and Effect (second edition, 1806)
• Immanuel Kant (1720-1804)
• Prolegomena to any Future Metaphysics
• Translation of John Richardson (1819)
• Translation of Ernest Belfort Bax (1888)
• Translation of John P. Mahaffy and John H. Bernard
• Translation by Paul Carus (1902)
• Thomas Hill Green (1836-1882)
• Introduction to Book I of Hume’s Treatise (1874)

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