Paul Russel is a Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of British Columbia, Canada.

Paul Russell has given us a marvelously good book... [He] offers original and compelling accounts of the irreligious implications of central arguments of the Treatise on an impressive range of topics... it should never again be claimed that the Treatise is largely unconcerned with questions of religion.

• I. Riddles, Critics and Monsters: Text and Context ; 1. The Riddle ; 2. "Atheism" and Hume's Early Critics ; 3. Religious Philosophers and Speculative Atheists ; 4. Newtonianism, Freethought, and Hume's Scottish Context ; 5. The Monster of Atheism: Its Being and Attributes ; II. The Form and Face of Humes's System ; 6. A Hobbist Plan ; 7. Atheism Under Cover: Esoteric Communication on Hume's Title-Pages ; III. The Nature of Hume's Universe ; 8. Blind Men Before a Fire: Empiricism and the Idea of God ; 9. Making Nothing of "Almighty Space" ; 10. Hume's "Curious Nostrum" and the Argument A Priori ; 11. Induction, Analogy and a Future State: Hume's "Guide to Life" ; 12. Matter, Omnipotence and our Idea of Necessity ; 13. Skepticism, Deception and the Material World ; 14. Immaterialisty, Ommortality and the Human Soul ; 15. The Practical Pyrrhonist ; IV. The Elements of Virtuous Atheism ; 16. Freedom Within Necessity: Hume's "clockwork Man" ; 17. Morality without Religion ; V. Hume's Philosophy of Irreligion

Paul Russel is a Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of British Columbia, Canada.

Paul Russell has given us a marvelously good book... [He] offers original and compelling accounts of the irreligious implications of central arguments of the Treatise on an impressive range of topics... it should never again be claimed that the Treatise is largely unconcerned with questions of religion.

• I. Riddles, Critics and Monsters: Text and Context ; 1. The Riddle ; 2. "Atheism" and Hume's Early Critics ; 3. Religious Philosophers and Speculative Atheists ; 4. Newtonianism, Freethought, and Hume's Scottish Context ; 5. The Monster of Atheism: Its Being and Attributes ; II. The Form and Face of Humes's System ; 6. A Hobbist Plan ; 7. Atheism Under Cover: Esoteric Communication on Hume's Title-Pages ; III. The Nature of Hume's Universe ; 8. Blind Men Before a Fire: Empiricism and the Idea of God ; 9. Making Nothing of "Almighty Space" ; 10. Hume's "Curious Nostrum" and the Argument A Priori ; 11. Induction, Analogy and a Future State: Hume's "Guide to Life" ; 12. Matter, Omnipotence and our Idea of Necessity ; 13. Skepticism, Deception and the Material World ; 14. Immaterialisty, Ommortality and the Human Soul ; 15. The Practical Pyrrhonist ; IV. The Elements of Virtuous Atheism ; 16. Freedom Within Necessity: Hume's "clockwork Man" ; 17. Morality without Religion ; V. Hume's Philosophy of Irreligion