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Most cited Anglophone books on Hume in the last century (according to Google Scholar) (CORRECTED)

Numbers drop off quickly here (even more than with Nietzsche!), so I list all books with at least 400 citations (rounded, as usual, to the nearest 100). Please email me about omissoins or corrections.

  1. Barry Stroud, Hume, 1,400
  2. Annette Baier, A Progress of Sentiments, 1,300
  3. Norman Kemp Smith, The Philosophy of David Hume, 1,100
  4. Don Garrett, Cognition and Commitment in Hume’s Philosophy, 1,000
  5. J.L. Mackie, Hume’s Moral Theory, 900
  6. Duncan Forbes, Hume‘s Philosophical Politics, 800
  7. Galen Strawson, The Secret Connexion, 700
  8. Donald W. Livingston, Hume’s Philosophy of Common Life, 600
  9. John Passmore, Hume’s Intentions, 600
  10. John P. Wright, The Sceptical Realism of David Hume, 600
  11. Tom Beauchamp & Alexander Rosenberg, Hume and the Problem of Causation, 400
  12. Rachel Cohon, Hume’s Morality, 400
  13. John Earman, Hume’s Abject Failure, 400
  14. Jerry Fodor, Hume Variations, 400
  15. David Owen, Hume’s Reason, 400
  16. Paul Russell, The Riddle of Hume’s Treatise, 400

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