How long does it take to read Philosophical Essays Concerning Human Understanding?
Philosophical Essays Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume takes about 3 hours 46 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 3 hours 46 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1900. 205 pages, about 56,375 words.
8 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 6 hours 16 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 46 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 21 minutes |
The page count is the median across 157 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
"Over a series of elegantly written, engaging essays, the Enquiry examines the experiential and psychological sources of meaning and knowledge, the foundations of reasoning about matters that lie beyond the scope of our sensory experience and memory, the nature of belief, and the limitations of our knowledge. The positions Hume takes on these topics have been described as paradigmatically empiricist, sceptical, and naturalist and have been widelyinfluential and even more widely decried. The introduction to this eiditon discusses the Enquiry's origin, evolution, and critical reception, while appendices provide examples of contemporary responses to Hume"--Page 4 of cover.
Subjects: Theory of Knowledge, Ethics, English Philosophy, Conocimiento, teoría del, Philosophy, Anthropologie philosophique
