ABSTRACT
In this chapter, I present a new reading of important passages in Hume’s first Enquiry. The reading provides support for the general thesis that the first Enquiry enacts a transition from cognitive science to post-Cartesianism. By this, I mean that Hume’s science of human nature leads him to give up the Cartesian goal of finding the one true theory to answer the questions he is asking and that this rejection of Cartesian standards has had a significant effect on the structure of the text itself.
