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86Space and the Self in Hume's TreatiseCambridge University Press. 1998.Hume's discussion of the idea of space in his Treatise on Human Nature is fundamental to an understanding of his treatment of such central issues as the existence of external objects, the unity of the self, the relation between certainty and belief, and abstract ideas. Marina Frasca-Spada's rich and original study examines this difficult part of Hume's philosophical writings and connects it to eighteenth-century works in natural philosophy, mathematics and literature. Focusing on Hume's discussi…Read more
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78Impressions of Hume (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2005.Impressions of Hume collects brand-new essays from leading scholars in different philosophical, historiographical, and literary traditions within which Hume is a canonical figure. To some his writings are vehicles for intuitions, problems, and arguments which are at the center of contemporary philosophical reflection; others locate Hume's views against the background of concerns and debates of his own time. Hume's texts may be read as highly sophisticated literary-cum-philosophical creations, or…Read more
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10History of Philosophy of Science: New Trends and PerspectivesSpringer. 2010.This volume includes recent contributions to the philosophy of science from a historical point of view and of the highest topicality: the range of the topics covers all fields in the philosophy of the science provided by authors from around the world focusing on ancient, modern and contemporary periods in the development of the science philosophy. This proceedings is for the scientific community and students at graduate level as well as postdocs in this interdisciplinary field of research.
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12David HumeIn Steven Nadler (ed.), A Companion to Early Modern Philosophy, Blackwell. 2002.This chapter contains section titled: Hume's Legacy Sense Impressions, Passions and Ideas The Idea of Cause and Effect Probability and the Inference from Past to Future (Moderate) Skepticism Moral Feelings Human Nature and Religious Beliefs.
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451Philosophical Melancholy and Delirium: Hume's Pathology of PhilosophyMind 110 (439): 783-789. 2001.1 Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge, Free School Lane, Cambridge, CB2 3RH, UK.
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29The many lives of eighteenth-century philosophyBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy 9 (1). 2001.This Article does not have an abstract
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16The Many Lives of Eighteenth-Century PhilosophyBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy 9 (1): 135-144. 2001.
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68Hume on Sense Impressions and ObjectsVienna Circle Institute Yearbook 9 13-24. 2002.This essay is on the nature and roles of sense impressions and objects in Hume’s account of perception in the Treatise of Human Nature. I start by considering how Hume introduces sense impressions at the beginning of the Treatise and show that, although he explains the distinction between impressions and ideas on the basis of their different strength and liveliness, the crucial difference between them is in fact that ideas are copies of impressions, while impressions do not, in turn, copy anythi…Read more
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45The pasts, presents, and futures of testimonyStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 52 95-100. 2015.
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54Splendours and miseries of the science warsStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 28 (2): 219-235. 1997.
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70Hume's philosophy more geometrico demonstrataBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy 6 (3). 1998.Don Garrett, Cognition and Commitment in Hume's Philosophy, New York and Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1997, pp. xiv + 270, Hb 40.00 ISBN 0-19-509721-1.
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49Reality and the coloured points in Hume's treatiseBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy 6 (1). 1998.No abstract
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34Reality and the coloured points in Hume's treatise 1British Journal for the History of Philosophy 5 (2): 297-319. 1997.