David Hume
03 Oct 1994 12:01Scotch philosopher, moralist and historian; the greatest of the British empiricists.
- Recommended:
- DH
- The Hume Archives
- An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
- An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals
- Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
- A Natural History of Religion
- From the Essays
- "Of the First Principles of Government"
- "Of Superstition and Enthusiasm"
- "Of the Standard of Taste"
- "Of the Balance of Trade" [Perhaps the first theoretical account of a feedback mechanism]
- "Of the Populousness of Ancient Nations"
- A. J. Ayer, Hume
- Alison Gopnik, "How David Hume Helped Solve My Midlife Crisis", Atlantic Monthly October 2015
- To read:
- DH
- Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary
- Treatise of Human Nature
- M. A. Box, The Suasive Art of David Hume
- Alison Gopnik, "Could David Hume Have Known about Buddhism? Charles Francois Dolu, the Royal College of La Flèche, and the Global Jesuit Intellectual Network", Hume Studies 35 (2009): 5--28 [PDF reprint via Prof. Gopnik]
- D. C. Stove, Probability and Hume's Inductive Scepticism
- Frederick G. Whelan, Order and Artifice in Hume's Political Philosophy