What David Hume book should I read first?

I don't have a particularly helpful answer, but I bought a bought a year or so ago called 'The Great Philosophers' by Stephen Law (The Lives and Ideas of History's Greatest Thinkers: Amazon.co.uk: Stephen Law: Books). read more

An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding. I think this is more distinctively Hume’s contribution to Western, and particularly Anglo-American thought, the foundation of the empirical, pragmatic tradition. read more

His first book, A Treatise of Human Nature, was published in 1738 when he was only 27. It's a big book and quite clearly written, but no one in the philosophical world read it. "It fell deadborn from the press," Hume wrote some years later. read more

David Hume was the second of two sons born to Joseph Home of Ninewells, an advocate, and his wife The Hon. Katherine (née Falconer), daughter of Sir David Falconer. He was born on 26 April 1711 in a tenement on the north side of the Lawnmarket in Edinburgh. read more