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 ...

This essay is taken from the foreword of George Caffentzis’s Civilizing Money: Hume, his Monetary Project and the Scottish Enlightenment. Caffentzis puts history back into chronology. The British ...

After pretending to study law, and abandoning a brief attempt to work for a sugar importer in Bristol, David Hume, the second son of a prominent Edinburgh family, decided to return home and live with ...

David Hume uncovered the roots of revolution in false philosophy. The conservative political tradition is usually thought to begin with Edmund Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France. Burke ...

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 ...

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 ...

HUME becomes more and more popular among philosophers. The reason is that we find ourselves in a period very similar to his. Indeed, it is felt that the dogmatic interpretations which have been given ...

The world of art awards and residencies seems pretty densely populated these days, but in March 2017, a new and very special program is slated to hit the scene, and this time it will be art writers ...

In the summer of 1776, the celebrated diarist James Boswell visited the Edinburgh home of David Hume, where the philosopher lay dying. Hume, atypically thin and “ghastly” in pallor, was nevertheless ...