born May 7 [April 26, Old Style], 1711, Edinburgh, Scot. died Aug. 25, 1776, Edinburgh
A Treatise of Human Nature: Being an Attempt to Introduce the Experimental Method of Reasoning into Moral Subjects (1739–40); An Abstract of a Book Lately Published: Entitled, A Treatise of Human Nature, etc., Wherein the Chief Argument of That Book Is Farther Illustrated and Explained (1740); Philosophical Essays Concerning Human Understanding (1748; many later editions entitled An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding); Four Dissertations (1757); Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion (1779); A Letter from a Gentleman to His Friend Containing Some Observations on Religion and Morality (1745).
Essays, Moral and Political (1741–42); An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals (1751); Political Discourses (1752).
The History of Great Britain (1754–57); The History of England Under the House of Tudor (1759); The History of England from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Accession of Henry VII (1762).
A Concise and Genuine Account of the Dispute Between Mr. Hume and Mr. Rousseau (1766); The Life of David Hume, Esquire, Written by Himself (1777).
Recommended modern editions of separate works by Hume include: A Treatise of Human Nature ed. by L.A. Selby-Bigge, 2nd ed. rev. by P.H. Nidditch (1980); Enquiries Concerning Human Understanding and Concerning the Principles of Morals, ed. by L.A. Selby-Bigge, 3rd ed. rev. by P.H. Nidditch (1975); Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, ed. by Norman Kemp Smith (1935, reissued 1981); The Natural History of Religion, ed. by A. Wayne Colver (1976); and The History of Great Britain: The Reigns of James I and Charles I, ed. by Duncan Forbes (1970). The best collected edition is The Philosophical Works of David Hume, ed. by T.H. Green and T.H. Grose, new ed., 4 vol. (1882–86, reprinted 1964).
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