In the Old Calton cemetery in Edinburgh, David Hume’s mausoleum, a stout, cylindrical tower, dominates the surrounding tombstones. Contrasting with this imposing tomb, Hume insisted that it carry a ...

How did one of the greatest philosophers who ever lived get so much wrong? David Hume certainly deserves his place in the philosophers’ pantheon, but when it comes to politics, he erred time and again ...

Professor Elizabeth Radcliffe, who joined the William & Mary philosophy department in the Fall of 2009, is a specialist on the philosophy of David Hume. Hume, an eighteenth-century Scottish thinker ...

On April 26, 1711, the baptismal register in Edinburgh reported the birth of a “son named David” to John Home and Katherine Falconer. In a different hand, written many decades later, another city ...

If you judged David Hume the man by his philosophy, you may judge him as disagreeable. He was a Scottish philosopher who epitomized what it means to be skeptical – to doubt both authority and the self ...

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Must reason override passion to allow for rational action? William & Mary Philosophy Professor Elizabeth Radcliffe’s new book says both are necessary, supporting the theory of 18 th-century ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Phyllis "Peggy" Vandenberg talks about David Hume's belifes and influence on the U.S. Constitution. Phyllis "Peggy" Vandenberg talks about 18th ...

Scotland’s enlightened philosophers did not on the whole have an exciting time of it. Some piquant stories told about them – the infant Adam Smith kidnapped by gypsies, Adam Ferguson leading the ...