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David Hume's "Treatise of Human Nature" is required reading for students and academics in the human sciences. On first publication in 1739, this book was greeted with mockery and incomprehension. Possibly the only contemporary philosophers capable of understanding Hume were Kant and Thomas Reid. Hume nevertheless contributed further philosophical works, before seeking literary fame in history and moral and political thought. This collected edition of David Hume's "Philosophical Works" contains all the essays and shows Hume's editorial alterations and corrections of the various editions published in his lifetime. Essays such as "Suicide" and "Immortality of the Soul" omitted in the 1777 edition are included here, as are two accounts of his life, one by Hume himself and the other by his friend, Adam Smith.