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Tito Magri, Hume’s Imagination, Oxford University Press, 2023, 512pp., $165.00 (hbk), ISBN 9780192864147.

Reviewed by Donald C. Ainslie, University of Toronto

Tito Magri’s Hume’s Imagination is a big and impressive book. Big: with almost 500 pages of text, it is longer than ATreatise of Human Nature, David Hume’s masterwork, the first Book of which Magri takes as his focus. Magri thoughtfully helps his readers follow the argument of his book’s 12 chapters (divided into five parts) by providing both succinct summaries at the end of each chapter and an appendix that lists the various interpretive principles he excavates in his comprehensive readings. Impressive: Hume appeals to the imagination repeatedly throughout (especially) Book 1 of the Treatise;[1] its core role is to...