<div class="wiki_entry">The importance of the Treatise and Hume's project for establishing a Science of Man for the Scottish Enlightenment has been overlooked. It is suggested that the response it elicited from the Scottish intellectual community played a decisive role in shaping Scottish ideas of history and moral philosophy. In fact, its publication was arguably the decisive event in turning Scotland's enlightenment into an event of global significance.<br /><br />Audio podcast recorded Friday 4 November 2011.<br /><a href="http://podcast.is.ed.ac.uk:8080/Podcasts/candm/2011-11-08/Hume__Philosophy__History_and_the_Science_of_Man___Dr_Nicholas_Phillipson-audio.mp3" name="The importance of the Treatise and Hume's project for establishing a Science of Man for the Scottish Enlightenment has been overlooked. It is suggested that the response it elicited from the Scottish intellectual community played a decisive role in shaping Scottish ideas of history and moral philosophy. In fact, its publication was arguably the decisive event in turning Scotland's enlightenment into an event of global significance.">Listen to podcast</a></div>