A great deals of the work of David Hume was concerned with Religion, its cause, its effects, and the reasons for religious belief, and his views on the subject are widely spread through his writings. In these lectures an attempt is made to draw together the most powerful elements of his thought about religion and present them as a systematically constructed whole. Hume was not without his blind spots-as emerges particularly in the third lecture- bur nevertheless his case, taken as a whole, amounts to a very serious indictment, not of religion as such, but of most actual religions both past and present.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Edward Craig
Edward Craig is the reader in Modern Philosophy in the University of Cambridge, He has held visiting appointments at the University of Hamburg, Heidelberg, Melbourne and Lublin, and the Visiting Professorship at the Indian Institute of Advanced study which was the occasion for the lectures published here. He works on the history of philosophy in the modern period, and on the theory of knowledge. His main publications are David Hume: eine Einfubrung in seine Philosophie, the Mind of God and the Works of Man and knowledge and the state of Nature. He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1993.
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