The Study of Human Cognition is one of the central works of the Scottish thinker David Hume and one of the most important works of enlightenment philosophy. In it, Hume gives a general theoretical idea of ​ ​ the fundamental principles of human thinking and perception, which he throughout his creative activity revealed in a wide variety of subject areas - ethical, political, economic, aesthetic, religious, etc. This book again attracted attention at the beginning of the XXI century in the most relevant areas of modern philosophy.