Hume's Skeptical Crisis - Fogelin, Robert J. (Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, Dartmouth College)

Hume's Skeptical Crisis is a textual study of the shifts in perspective that unfold as Hume attempts to produce a complete science of human nature. In the process, Hume's standpoint shifts from buoyant optimism to profound skeptical melancholy and finally comes to rest at a stable form of mitigated skepticism.