The riddle of Hume's Treatise : skepticism, naturalism, and irreligion
It is widely held that Hume's Treatise has little or nothing to do with problems of religion. Contrary to this view, Paul Russell argues that it is irreligious aims and objectives that are fundamental to the Treatise and account for its underlying unity and coherence
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The riddle
"Atheism" and Hume's early critics
Religious philosophers and speculative atheists
Newtownianism, freethought, and Hume's Scottish context
The monster of atheism
A Hobbist plan
Atheism under cover
Blind men before a fire
Making nothing of "almighty space"
The argument of a priori and Hume's "curious nostrum"
Induction, analogy, and a future state
Matter, omnipotence, and our idea of necessity
Skepticism, deception, and the material world
Immateriality, immortality, and the human soul
The practical pyrrhonist
Freedom within necessity
Morality without religion
The myth of "castration" and the riddle's solution
Was Hume an "atheist"?
Hume's Lucretian mission
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