Offering a study of David Hume's Treatise of Human Nature, this book examines his account of cognition and how it is grounded in his 'theory of ideas'. It discu... » 

Offering a study of David Hume's Treatise of Human Nature, this book examines his account of cognition and how it is grounded in his 'theory of ideas'. It discusses the distinction between 'simple' and 'complex' ideas, the thesis that an idea is some kind of picture, and the roles that 'association' and 'imagination' play in cognitive processes. «