The publication of Bayle and the origins of Hume's philosophy

Jacopo Agnesina. Ph.D. in History of Philosophy (2013). Former post-doc researcher at the University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Society of Waldesians Studies (Torre Pellice, Turin) and University of Eastern Piedmont (Vercelli). AOS in Intellectual History of Enlightenment: radical enlightenment, atheism and deism, Calvinist theology, freethinking, necessitarianism, cultural transfer, radical works translations and receptions. Antony McKenna, former pupil of Christ’s Hospital (Horsham), and Brasenose College, Oxford, Emeritus Professor, Université Jean Monnet Saint-Etienne, co-director of the Dictionnaire de Port-Royal (2004) and the critical edition of the correspondence of Pierre Bayle (1999-2017, 15 vol.); author of monographs on Pascal and Molière, editor of clandestine philosophical manuscripts. Gianluca Mori is Professor of History of Philosophy at the Università del Piemonte Orientale. His research bears on early modern thought; he has published Bayle philosophe (Paris, H. Champion, 1999), Early Modern Atheism from Spinoza to d’Holbach (Liverpool University Press, 2021), Descartes: The Story of a Mind (Leiden, Brill, 2025).

• AbbreviationsAbstractPrefaceList of letters reproduced in this volumeIntroductionIntellectual links between Scotland and HollandCharles Mackie and Thomas Johnson: A Brief Biographya) Charles Mackieb) Thomas JohnsonCharles Mackie's correspondence and the selection of lettersConnections, books and shipping strategiesThe Œuvres diverses project and the distribution of Bayle's works in ScotlandHume, Bayle, and MackieConclusionsEditorial annotation of the lettersCorrespondence of Charles Mackie with Thomas Johnson and Others Appendix I: Correspondence of Thomas Johnson with Pierre Des MaizeauxAppendix II: Excerpts from the Correspondence of Charles Pacius de La Motte with Pierre Des MaizeauxBibliographyIndex of proper names