1 Table of Contents: “... of taste" : texts and contexts / Peter Jones -- David Hume: "the historian" / David Wootton -- Hume...”

2 “... but the perception.' These famous words of David Hume, on his inability to perceive the self, set the stage...”

3 “... with leading figures such as Francis Bacon, Robert Boyle, Isaac Newton, Jean Le Rond d'Alembert, David Hume...”

4 “...'Methinks I am like a man, who having narrowly escap'd shipwreck', David Hume writes in A Treatise...”