Hume/ a guide for the perplexed Coventry,Angela M.

Chapter 1: Life and Works of David Hume
1.1. Publication Time-Line
Chapter 2: Intellectual Heritage
2.1. The Growth of Science
2.2. Empiricism and Rationalism
2.3. Main Influences
2.3.1. Descartes
2.3.2. Malebranche
2.3.3. Newton
2.3.4. Locke
2.3.5. Berkeley
2.3.6. Bayie
2.4. Summary
Chapter 3: Approach to Philosophy
3.1. Definition of Philosophy
3.2. Characterization of the Present State of Philosophy
3.3. The Science of Human Nature
3.3.1. The experimental method
3.4. Summary
Chapter 4: Operations of the Mind
4.1. The Copy Principle
4.1.1. Two examples in support of the Copy Principle
4.1.2. The case of the missing shade of blue
4.1.3. Impressions and ideas further classified
4.2. The Separability Principle
4.3. Principles of the Association of Ideas
4.3.1. Relations
4.3.2. Substance and mode
4.3.3. Abstract ideas
4.4. Summary
Chapter 5; Space and Time
5.1. Against the Infinite Divisibility of Space and Time
5.2. The Origin of our Ideas of Space and Time
5.3. The Vacuum
5.4. Three Objections Considered
5.5. Space, Time and the Copy Principle
Chapter 6: Cause and Efiect
6.1. The Relation of Cause and Eflfect
6.2. Why a Cause Is Always Necessary
6.3. The Inference from Cause to Effect
6.3.1. The reason of animals
6.4. Belief
6.4.1. The causes of belief
6.4.2. The influence of belief
6.5. Probability
6.6. Rules to Judge Causes and Effects
6.7. Kant's 'Reply' to Hume
Chapter 7: Necessary Connection
7.1. The Idea of Necessary Connection
7.2. Liberty and Necessity
7.3. Moral and Religious Implications of Necessity
7.4. The Imaginary Standard of a Necessary Connection
7.5. Summary
Chapter 8: Scepticism
8.1. Scepticism about Reason
8.2. The Existence of External Objects
8.2.1. Senses
8.2.2. Reason
8.2.3. Imagination
8.3. Ancient Philosophy
8.4. Modern Philosophy
8.5. The Immaterial Soul
.6. Personal Identity
.7. Effects of Scepticism on Philosophy
.8. Scepticism and the Science of Human Nature