Dr Peter Kail has published The Routledge Guidebook to Hume’s A Treatise of Human Nature (Routledge, 2025). The eighteenth-century Scottish empiricist philosopher David Hume is considered one of the most important philosophers to have written in the English language, and his A Treatise of Human Nature of 1739/1740 is seen as his greatest and most influential work. Dr Kail’s new Guidebook is an introductory text, intended to assist readers who are less familiar with the key themes in A Treatise of Human Nature.
Learn more about the book here.
About Dr Kail
Dr Peter Kail is Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy at St Peter’s College and Associate Professor in the History of Modern Philosophy at the University of Oxford. His research focuses mainly on the history of philosophy. He has written books on David Hume, George Berkeley and Friedrich Nietzsche, has served as the editor of the journal Hume Studies, and is a founding member and member of the executive committee of the International Nietzsche Society. At St Peter’s, Dr Kail teaches General Philosophy (an introduction to Metaphysics and Epistemology) and offers tutorials in a range of subjects, mainly in the history of philosophy. Learn more about Dr Kail here.