ABSTRACT
This chapter argues that Kant’s efforts to address Hume’s skeptical challenge has had a profound influence on continental philosophy. Kant’s response to Hume will criticized by many in the post-Kantian tradition, and they often turned to Hume in doing so. This is particularly true in the continental tradition, as our focus on the work of Bergson and Husserl will show; moreover, the work of these two contemporaries has largely established the themes that have come to be identified with continental philosophy, as our brief discussions of Merleau-Ponty and Deleuze will illustrate. To fully appreciate work in the continental tradition, therefore, one must turn to Hume.
