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An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding: A Critical Edition , and: An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding (review)

An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding: A Critical Edition , and: An Enquiry concerning Human... , pp. 143-149 DAVID HUME. An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding: A Critical Edition. Edited by Tom L. Beauchamp. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998. Pp. cvii + 344. ISBN 0-19-825060-6 cloth, $75.00; ISBN 0-19-926634-4, paper, $35.00. (The paper version is scheduled for release in January 2004). DAVID HUME. An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding (Oxford Philosophical Texts). Edited by Tom L. Beauchamp. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. Pp. ν + 296. ISBN 0-19-875248-2, paper, $12.95. Here we have a new edition of Hume's Enquiry concerning Human Understanding, one that will become essential for scholars alongside the new Norton and Norton edition of Hume's Treatise.1 L. A. Selby-Bigge's nineteenth century edition (supplemented by P. Nidditch's emendations) provided a good text to nineteenth century standardsÂ--good enough for it to become the stan- dard for many years. But times change, and we now, quite reasonably, ask for more. Beauchamp's new edition provides a text and apparatus that is a vast improvement; it will surely replace Selby-Bigge's as the common reference text for scholars and students. To be sure, scholars at least will not for many years be able to do without the latter's edition: so many have come out over the years with the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Hume Studies Hume Society

An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding: A Critical Edition , and: An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding (review)

Wilson, Fred
Hume Studies , Volume 29 (1) – Jan 26, 2003
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, pp. 143-149 DAVID HUME. An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding: A Critical Edition. Edited by Tom L. Beauchamp. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998. Pp. cvii + 344. ISBN 0-19-825060-6 cloth, $75.00; ISBN 0-19-926634-4, paper, $35.00. (The paper version is scheduled for release in January 2004). DAVID HUME. An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding (Oxford Philosophical Texts). Edited by Tom L. Beauchamp. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. Pp. ν + 296. ISBN 0-19-875248-2, paper, $12.95. Here we have a new edition of Hume's Enquiry concerning Human Understanding, one that will become essential for scholars alongside the new Norton and Norton edition of Hume's Treatise.1 L. A. Selby-Bigge's nineteenth century edition (supplemented by P. Nidditch's emendations) provided a good text to nineteenth century standardsÂ--good enough for it to become the stan- dard for many years. But times change, and we now, quite reasonably, ask for more. Beauchamp's new edition provides a text and apparatus that is a vast improvement; it will surely replace Selby-Bigge's as the common reference text for scholars and students. To be sure, scholars at least will not for many years be able to do without the latter's edition: so many have come out over the years with the

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