Preface Texts and Citations Introduction. The Interpretive Problem Chapter 1. Of Knowledge and Probability: A Quick Tour of Part 3, Book 1 Section 1. Of knowledge Section 2. Of probability; and of the idea of cause and effect Section 3. Why a cause is always necessary? Section 4. Of the component parts of our reasonings concerning causes and Effects Section 5. Of the impressions of the senses and memory Section 6.

Of the inference from the impression to the idea Section 7. Of the nature of the idea, or belief Section 8. Of the causes of belief Section 9. Of the effects of other relations, and other habits Section 10. Of the influence of belief Section 11. Of the probability of chances Section 12. Of the probability of causes Section 13. Of unphilosophical probability Section 14.

Of the idea of necessary connexion Section 15. Rules by which to judge of causes and effects Section 16. Of the reason of animals Chapter 2. Hume on Unphilosophical Probabilities Unphilosophical as opposed to philosophical probabilities Sources of unphilosophical probabilities The effect of the remoteness of the event The effect of the remoteness of the observation Reiterative diminution Prejudice based on general rules Conflicts within the imagination and skepticism Chapter 3. Hume''s Skepticism with Regard to Reason The turn to skepticism The basic argument Reducing knowledge to probability The regression argument The principle of reiterative diminution Hume''s response to his skepticalå argument Peritrope Chapter 4. Of Skepticism with Regard to the Senses Hume''s turnabout with regard to the senses The organization of section 2 The causes of our belief in the existence of bodies The senses not the source of this belief Reason not the source of this belief The operations of the imagination in forming this belief Hume''s informal statement of his position Hume''s systematic statement of his position The principle of identity Gap filling The idea of continued existence The belief in continued existence The philosopher''s double-existence theory of perception The Pyrrhonian moment A concluding note Chapter 5. Of the Ancient and Modern Philosophy Reasons for examining ancient and modern philosophical systems Of the ancient philosophy (section 3) The false belief in the continued identity of changing objects The fiction of underlying substance, or original first matter The false belief in the simplicity of objects The fiction of a unifying substance The incomprehensibility of the peripatetic system Skeptical implications Of the modern philosophy (section 4) Against the distinction between primary and secondary qualities Another Pyrrhonian moment Chapter 6. The Soul and the Self Of the immateriality of the soul (section 5) Setting the dialectical stage The soul as substance The problem of local conjunction Soul-body interaction On proofs of immortality Of personal identity (section 6) Basic criticisms Account of the fiction of personal identity Disputes about identity as merely verbal The reservations in the appendix Hume''s picture of the mind Hume''s declaration of failure Chapter 7.

The Conclusion of Book 1 A gloomy summation of skeptical results What is to be done? Being a philosopher on skeptical principles Chapter 8. Two Openings and Two Closings The Treatise and the Enquiry on skepticism The opening of the Treatise The opening of the Enquiry The response to skepticism in the Enquiry The science of human nature in the Enquiry The role of skeptical arguments in the Enquiry Skepticism concerning the senses Skepticism concerning reason Skepticism concerning moral reasoning Pyrrhonism and mitigated skepticism.