Hume and Contemporary Epistemology

This is the first edited collection dedicated to demonstrating Hume’s relevance to contemporary debates in epistemology. It features original essays by Hume scholars and epistemologists that address a wide range of important questions, including the following:
What does a Humean conception of knowledge look like?
How do Hume’s understanding of belief and suspension of judgement bear on current debates about doxastic attitudes?
Is there a Humean way of uniting reasons in the epistemic and practical domains?
What is the proper role of reason at the foundations of ethics and epistemology from a Humean point of view?
What contribution might an examination of Humean scepticism make to understanding of current sceptical hypotheses?
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