First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Barry Stroud is Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. His philosophical writings have included studies of Wittgenstein and Quine in addition to examinations of transcendental arguments, knowledge and scepticism, logical necessity and meaning, and related topics.

Preface 1. The Study of Human Nature 2. The Theory of Ideas 3. Causality and the Inference from the Observed to the Unobserved: The Negative Phase 4. Belief and the Idea of Necessary Connection: The Positive Phase 5. The Continued and Distinct Existence of Bodies 6. The Idea od Personal Identity 7. Action, Reason and Passion 8. Reason, Passion and Morality 9. Morality and Society 10. Problems and Prospects of Humean Naturalism Notes Bibliography Index