Hume's Scepticism: Pyrrhonian and Academic

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Argues that David Hume was a thoroughgoing sceptic on epistemological, metaphysical and doxastic groundsAdvances both historical and logical reasons for the conclusion that Hume is a radical scepticExhibits extraordinary historical depth and breadth, with a sweep covering the history of Western philosophyCovers Hume's A Treatise of Human Nature; An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding and An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals; Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary; The History of England; Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion; and lettersMaking a sharp break with dominant contemporary readings of David Hume’s scepticism, Peter S. Fosl offers an original and radical interpretation of Hume as a thoroughgoing sceptic. He does this by first situating Hume’s thought historically in the sceptical tradition and goes on to interpret the conceptual apparatus of Hume's work.