Robert J. Fogelin is Professor of Philosophy and Sherman Fairchild Professor in the Humanities at Dartmouth College. He is the author of Walking the Tightrope of Reason (OUP 2002), Hume's Skeptical Crisis (OUP 2009), Figuratively Speaking (OUP 2011), and more.

This is a thoughtful and useful volume. It is also clearly written and entertaining. Its readers cannot but come away with a tincture of Professor Fogelin's enthusiasm for Hume's Dialogues

• General Introduction Section I: A Textual Study Introduction Letter from Pamphilus to Hermippus Part One "Let us become thoroughly sensible of the weakness, blindness, and narrow limits of human reason." Philo Part Two "Look round the world. You will find it to be nothing but one great machine." Cleanthes Part Three "Must you not instantly ascribe it to some design or purpose?" Cleanthes Part Four "I have found a Deity; and here I stop my enquiry." Cleanthes Part Five "What tools and levers and derricks?" Philo Parts Six and Seven "It must be a slight fabric, which can be erected on so tottering a foundation." Demea Part Eight "Each disputant triumphs in his turn." Philo Part Nine "We must, therefore, have recourse to a necessarily existent Being, who carries the Reason of his existence in himself." Demea Part Ten "Whence then is evil" Philo Part Eleven "Supposing the Author of nature to be finitely perfect EL a satisfactory account may be given of natural and moral evil." Cleanthes Part Twelve "To be a philosophical Sceptic is, in a man of letters, the first and most essential step towards beinga sound, believing Christian." Philo Who Speaks for Hume? Section II: Critical ReflectionsIntroduction 1. Hume, Pyrrhonism, and Fideism 2. Richard Popkin on Hume and Pyrrhonism 3. The New Hume 4. Garrett on Hume's Notion of a True Religion 5. David Hume on the Dialogues Appendix: Some Responses to The Dialogues References

Robert J. Fogelin is Professor of Philosophy and Sherman Fairchild Professor in the Humanities at Dartmouth College. He is the author of Walking the Tightrope of Reason (OUP 2002), Hume's Skeptical Crisis (OUP 2009), Figuratively Speaking (OUP 2011), and more.

This is a thoughtful and useful volume. It is also clearly written and entertaining. Its readers cannot but come away with a tincture of Professor Fogelin's enthusiasm for Hume's Dialogues

• General Introduction Section I: A Textual Study Introduction Letter from Pamphilus to Hermippus Part One "Let us become thoroughly sensible of the weakness, blindness, and narrow limits of human reason." Philo Part Two "Look round the world. You will find it to be nothing but one great machine." Cleanthes Part Three "Must you not instantly ascribe it to some design or purpose?" Cleanthes Part Four "I have found a Deity; and here I stop my enquiry." Cleanthes Part Five "What tools and levers and derricks?" Philo Parts Six and Seven "It must be a slight fabric, which can be erected on so tottering a foundation." Demea Part Eight "Each disputant triumphs in his turn." Philo Part Nine "We must, therefore, have recourse to a necessarily existent Being, who carries the Reason of his existence in himself." Demea Part Ten "Whence then is evil" Philo Part Eleven "Supposing the Author of nature to be finitely perfect EL a satisfactory account may be given of natural and moral evil." Cleanthes Part Twelve "To be a philosophical Sceptic is, in a man of letters, the first and most essential step towards beinga sound, believing Christian." Philo Who Speaks for Hume? Section II: Critical ReflectionsIntroduction 1. Hume, Pyrrhonism, and Fideism 2. Richard Popkin on Hume and Pyrrhonism 3. The New Hume 4. Garrett on Hume's Notion of a True Religion 5. David Hume on the Dialogues Appendix: Some Responses to The Dialogues References

Robert J. Fogelin is Professor of Philosophy and Sherman Fairchild Professor in the Humanities at Dartmouth College. He is the author of Walking the Tightrope of Reason (OUP 2002), Hume's Skeptical Crisis (OUP 2009), Figuratively Speaking (OUP 2011), and more.

This is a thoughtful and useful volume. It is also clearly written and entertaining. Its readers cannot but come away with a tincture of Professor Fogelin's enthusiasm for Hume's Dialogues

• General Introduction Section I: A Textual Study Introduction Letter from Pamphilus to Hermippus Part One "Let us become thoroughly sensible of the weakness, blindness, and narrow limits of human reason." Philo Part Two "Look round the world. You will find it to be nothing but one great machine." Cleanthes Part Three "Must you not instantly ascribe it to some design or purpose?" Cleanthes Part Four "I have found a Deity; and here I stop my enquiry." Cleanthes Part Five "What tools and levers and derricks?" Philo Parts Six and Seven "It must be a slight fabric, which can be erected on so tottering a foundation." Demea Part Eight "Each disputant triumphs in his turn." Philo Part Nine "We must, therefore, have recourse to a necessarily existent Being, who carries the Reason of his existence in himself." Demea Part Ten "Whence then is evil" Philo Part Eleven "Supposing the Author of nature to be finitely perfect EL a satisfactory account may be given of natural and moral evil." Cleanthes Part Twelve "To be a philosophical Sceptic is, in a man of letters, the first and most essential step towards beinga sound, believing Christian." Philo Who Speaks for Hume? Section II: Critical ReflectionsIntroduction 1. Hume, Pyrrhonism, and Fideism 2. Richard Popkin on Hume and Pyrrhonism 3. The New Hume 4. Garrett on Hume's Notion of a True Religion 5. David Hume on the Dialogues Appendix: Some Responses to The Dialogues References