Hume’s Works

In the entry above, we Follow the convention given in the Nortons’ Treatise and Beauchamp’s Enquiries: we cite Book . Part . Section . Paragraph; followed by page references to the Selby-Bigge/Nidditch editions. Thus T,1.2.3.4/ 34: will indicate Treatise Bk.1, Pt.2, Sec.3, Para.4/ Selby-Bigge pg.34. References to the Abstract [TA] are to the two editions of the Treatise mentioned above (paragraph/page). In the case of the Enquiries I cite Section and Paragraph; followed by page reference to the Selby-Bigge edition. Thus EU, 12.1/ 149 refers to Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Sect.12, Para. 1 / Selby-Bigge pg. 149.

T	A Treatise of Human Nature, edited by L. A. Selby-Bigge, 2nd edition, revised by P.H. Nidditch, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1975.
	A Treatise of Human Nature, edited by David Fate Norton and Mary J. Norton, Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.
MEM	“Hume’s Early Memoranda, 1729–1740”, edited with a forward by E.C. Mossner, Journal of the History of Ideas, 9 (1948): 492–518.
EF	“An early fragment on evil,” in Hume and Hume’s Connexions, ed. by M.A. Stewart & J. P. Wright, University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1994, 160–70.
LG	A Letter from a Gentleman to his friend in Edinburgh, ed. by E.C. Mossner and J.V. Price, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1967.
EU	Enquiry concerning Human Understanding, in Enquiries concerning Human Understanding and concerning the Principles of Morals, edited by L. A. Selby-Bigge, 3rd edition revised by P. H. Nidditch, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1975.
	Enquiry concerning Human Understanding, edited by Tom L. Beauchamp, Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
EM	Enquiry concerning the Principles of Morals, edited by Tom L. Beauchamp, Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press, 1998
ESY	Essays: Moral, Political, and Literary, revised edition by E.F. Miller, Indianapolis: Liberty Classics, 1985.
NHR	The Natural History of Religion (1757) in, A Dissertation on the Passions, The Natural History of religion: A Critical Edition, edited by T.L. Beauchamp, Oxford & New York: Clarendon Press, 2007. Section and paragraph references are to this edition.
	The Natural History of Religion (1757) in: Dialogues and Natural History of Religion, edited by J.A.C. Gaskin, Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.
	The Natural History of Religion, edited with an introduction by James Fieser, New York: Macmillan, 1992.
D	Dialogues concerning Natural Religion and Other Writings (1779), edited by D. Coleman, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. References are to the Part and paragraph numbers as provided in this edition. Page references after the slash are provided to:
	Dialogues concerning Natural Religion, 2nd edition, edited by N. Kemp Smith, Edinburgh: Nelson & Sons, 1947.
	Dialogues concerning Natural Religion in Dialogues and Natural History of Religion, edited by J.A.C. Gaskin, Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.
	Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion and the Posthumous Essays, edited and introduced by R.H. Popkin, Indianapolis: Hackett, 1980.
	Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, edited and introduced by Martin Bell, London: Penguin, 1990.
	David Hume Writings on Religion, edited and introduced by A. Flew, La Salle, Ill.: Open Court, 1992. [This collection contains the complete Dialogues along with a number of other works by Hume concerned with religion.]
LET	The Letters of David Hume, 2 Vols., edited by J.Y.T. Greig, Oxford: Clarendon, 1932.
HE	The History of England, 6 Vols., edited by William B. Todd, Indianapolis: Liberty Classics, 1983.

Primary Works

Background

• Baxter, Andrew, Enquiry into the Nature of the Human Soul, 2^nd edition, 2 Vols., London, 1737; reprinted, Bristol: Thoemmes, 1990. (Scholar)
• Bayle, Pierre, Historical and Critical Dictionary, 1702; selections translated and introduced by Ruchard Popkin, Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1965. (Scholar)
• Bentley, Richard, Folly of Atheism, in Works of Richard Bentley, 3 Vols., London, 1838, Vol. III; reprinted, New York: AMS Press, 1966. (Scholar)
• Berkeley, George, A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Knowledge, 1710; edited with an introduction by Jonathan Dancy, Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. (Scholar)
• –––, Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous, 1713; edited with an introduction by Jonathan Dancy, Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. (Scholar)
• –––, Alciphron, or the Minute Philosopher, 1732; selections in Alciphron in focus, edited and introduced by David Berman, London: Routledge, 1993. (Scholar)
• Browne, Peter, Things Divine and Supernatural Conceived by Analogy with Things Natural and Human, London, 1733.
• Butler, Joseph, The Analogy of Religion, 1736; in The Works of Joseph Butler, edited by S. Halifax, 2 Vols., Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1849, Vol. I. (Scholar)
• Clarke, Samuel, A Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God, 1704; introduced and edited with other writings by E. Vailati, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.
• Cudworth, Ralph, True Intellectual System of the Universe, 2 Vols., London, 1678; reprinted, New York & London: Garland, 1978. (Scholar)
• Descartes, Rene, Meditations on First Philosophy, Paris, 1641; in The Philosophical Writings of Decartes, translated by J. Cottingham, R. Stoothoff, D. Murdoch, 3 Vols., Cambridge: Cambridge Univesity Press, 1984, Vol. II. (Scholar)
• Hobbes, Thomas, Human Nature and De Corpore Politico [The Elements of Law], 1640; edited with an introduction by J.C.A. Gaskin, Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.
• –––, Leviathan, London, 1651; edited with an introduction by E. Curley, Indianapolis: Hackett, 1994.
• –––, The Citizen [Philosophical Rudiments Concerning Govrnment and Society], 1642; edited and introduced by B. Gert, Man and Citizen, Indianapolis: Hackett, 1991.
• Leibniz, G.W., Theodicy, 1710; translated. E.M. Huggard, edited with an introduction by A. Farrer, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1951.
• Locke, John, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, London, 1690; edited with a foreword by P.H. Nidditch, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1975.
• Lucretius, The Nature of the Universe, 55 B.C.E.; translated and introduced by R.E. Latham, Harmondsworth, Middx.: Penguin, 1951.
• Malebranche, Nicolas, Philosophical Selections, edited by S. Nadler, Indianapolis: Hackett, 1992.
• Spinoza, Theological-Political Treatise, 1670; translated with an introduction by R.H.M. Elwes, The Chief Works of Spinoza, New York: Dover, 1951.
• –––, Ethics, 1677; translated by S. Shirley and edited with an introduction by S. Feldman, Indianapolis: Hackett, 1991.

Early Responses to Hume’s Philosophy of Religion

• Fieser, James (ed.), Early Responses to Hume’s Writings on Religion, Bristol: Thoemmes Press, 2001. [Vols. 5 and 6 of the series Early Responses to Hume.] (Scholar)
• Tweyman, Stanley (ed.), Hume on Miracles, Bristol: Thoemmes, 1996.

Secondary Works

Books

• Bailey, Alan, and Dan O’Brien (eds.),2012, The Continuum Companion to Hume, London & New York: Continuum. [See, in particular, the contributions by Pritchard & Richmond, Pyle and O’Connor.] (Scholar)
• Bailey, Alan, and Dan O’Brien, 2014, Hume’s Critique of Religion: ’Sick Men’s Dreams’, Dordrecht: Springer. (Scholar)
• Burns, R.M., 1981, The Great Debate on Miracles: From Joseph Glanville to David Hume, Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press. (Scholar)
• Earman, John, 2000, Hume’s Abject Failure: The Argument Against Miracles, Oxford; New York: Clarendon Press. (Scholar)
• Ferreira,M. Jamie, 1986, Scepticism and Reasonable Doubt: The British Naturalist Tradition in Wilkins, Hume Reid and Newman, Oxford: Clarendon Press. (Scholar)
• Fogelin, Robert J., 2003, A Defense of Hume on Miracles, Princeton: Princeton University Press. (Scholar)
• Gaskin, J.C.A., 1988, Hume’s Philosophy of Religion, 2^nd ed., London: Macmillan. (Scholar)
• Herdt, Jennifer, 1997, Religion and Faction in Hume’s Moral Philosophy, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
• Holden, Thomas, 2010, Spectres of False Divinity: Hume’s Moral Atheism, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
• Hurlbutt, Robert H., 1985, Hume, Newton and the Design Argument, revised edition, Lincoln & London: University of Nebraska Press. (Scholar)
• Israel, Jonathan, 2001, Radical Enlightenment: Philosophy and the Making of Modernity 1650-1750, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• Jeffner, Anders, 1966, Butler and Hume on Religion: A Comparative Analysis, Stockholm: Diakonistyrelsens Bokforlag. (Scholar)
• Johnson, David, 1999, Hume, Holism, and Miracles , Ithaca: Cornell University Press. (Scholar)
• Kemp Smith, Norman, 1947, Introduction to his edition of Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, 2nd edition, Edinburgh: Nelson. (Scholar)
• Levine, Michael P., 1989, Hume and the Problem of Miracles: A Solution, Dordrecht: Kluwer. (Scholar)
• MacIntosh, J.J., 2006, Boyle on Atheism, Toronto: University of Toronto Press. (Scholar)
• Mackie, J.L., 1982, The Miracle of Theism: Arguments for and against the Existence of God, Oxford: Clarendon Press. [This book is not directly on Hume’s philosophy of religion but discusses his views on various relevant topics at some length in several chapters.] (Scholar)
• Millican, Peter (ed.), 2002, Reading Hume on Human Understanding, Oxford: Clarendon Press. [See, in particular, the articles by Millican, Garrett and Gaskin.] (Scholar)
• O’Connor, David, 2001, Hume On Religion, London & New York: Routledge. (Scholar)
• Penelhum, Terence, 2000, Themes in Hume: The Self, the Will, Religion, Oxford: Clarendon Press, esp. Ch. 9–13. (Scholar)
• Phillips, D.Z., and Timothy Tessin, eds.,1999, Religion and Hume’s Legacy, London: Palgrave Macmillan. (Scholar)
• Radcliffe, Elizabeth S. (ed.), 2011, A Companion to Hume, Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell. [See, in particular, the contributions by Penelhum, Bell and Levine.] (Scholar)
• Russell, Paul, 2008, The Riddle of Hume’s Treatise: Scepticism, Naturalism and Irreligion, Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• Russell, Paul (ed.), 2016, The Oxford Handbook of David Hume, New York: Oxford University Press. [See, in particular, the contributions by Russell, Bell, Newlands, Levine, Yandell and Lecaldano.] (Scholar)
• Sennett, James F., and Douglas Groothuis (eds.), 1986, In Defence of Natural Theology: A Post-Humean Assessment, Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press. (Scholar)
• Siebert, Donald. T., 1990, The Moral Animus of David Hume, Newark: University of Delaware Press. (Scholar)
• Stephen, Leslie, 1962 [1902], History of English Thought in the Eighteenth Century, 3rd edition, London: Harcourt, Brace & World. (Scholar)
• Tweyman, Stanley, 1986, Scepticism and Belief in Hume’s Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, Dordrecht: Martinus Nijhoff. (Scholar)
• Vanzo, Alberto, 2016, “Empiricism and Rationalism in Nineteenth-Century Histories of Philosophy”, Journal of the History of Ideas 77, 253-282. (Scholar)
• Yandell, Keith E., 1990, Hume’s “Inexplicable Mystery”: His Views on Religion, Philadelphia: Temple University Press. (Scholar)

Bibliographies

• Hume Studies. [This journal provides a comprehensive review of Hume literature, updated annually.]
• Morris, William, “David Hume,” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2012 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = <https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2012/entries/hume/>. [Contains an excellent bibliography relating to Hume’s philosophy in general.] (Scholar)
• A helpful bibliography of readings relating to Hume’s views on religion, including many important articles on this topic, may be found in Bailey & O’Brien (eds.), The Continuum Companion to Hume, as cited above. (Scholar)