Professor of Philosophy, University of Michigan. Author of STABILITY AND JUSTIFICATION IN HUME'S 'TREATISE'

Loeb is a well-known figure in the history of early-modern philosophy. From his earliest publications Loeb has produced imaginative and somewhat quirky interpretations of some of the standard figures in the history of philosophy... by putting together his readings of Descartes and Hume in a single volume, Loeb shows the reader some striking similarities between these two philosophers...

• Acknowledgments ; The Articles ; Abbreviations for Editions; References to Hume ; Introduction ; I. Is There Radical Dissimulation in Descartes' Meditations? (1986) ; II. The Priority of Reason in Descartes (1990) ; III. The Cartesian Circle (1992) ; IV. Sextus, Descartes, Hume, and Peirce: On Securing Settled Doxastic States (1998) ; V. Integrating Hume's Accounts of Belief and Justification (2001) ; VI. Hume's Explanations of Meaningless Beliefs (2001) ; VII. Hume on Stability, Justification, and Unphilosophical Probability (1995) ; VIII. Hume's Agent-centered Sentimentalism (2003) ; IX. What is Worth Preserving in the Kemp Smith Interpretation of Hume? (2009) ; X. Psychology, Epistemology, and Skepticism in Hume's Argument about Induction (2006) ; XI. Locke and British Empiricism (forthcoming) ; XII. The Naturalisms of Hume and Reid (2007) ; Bibliography ; Index