It is turning into what the philosopher called a ‘party from principle.’ That wasn’t a term of praise.

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If you take a passing casual interest in philosophy, there are probably at least two things you know about David Hume. One thing — most recently in the news — is that he was a racist. In fact Hume's ...

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 ...

According to the Scottish philosopher David Hume (1711-1776), humans are fundamentally social. It’s only by connecting with others — those that are like us and those that are unlike us — that we ...