Abstract

Harrison offers a detailed philosophical commentary on each of the twelve sections of Treatise III, ii, and on most of the corresponding parts of the second Enquiry. Taking each Treatise section in turn he provides a concise summary of its contents followed by a series of numbered "Comments" of greatly varying length. Few issues that Hume raises go undiscussed. The discontinuities that result from this thoroughness are disorienting, but a helpful analytical table of contents is available.