Quoting from Don Garrett: “A 1999 Sunday Times survey of British ‘opinion leaders’ named David Hume the ‘Scot of the Millenium’ then just ending. In earning this honor, Hume surpassed Robert Burns, Alexander Fleming, and his own friend Adam Smith. Given the dearth of recognized competitors from previous millenia, it seems safe to assume that… Read More Hume: “One of the four most important philosophers of all time”
“Hume is the amiable, modest, generous philosopher we need today” (Julian Baggini | Aeon Essays | aeon.co) Illustration by Petra Eriksson at Handsome Frank (Aeon Essays | aeon.co) Today is the 7th of May. Today we are commemorating de 308th anniversary of David Hume’s birth — his 308th birthday, if he were still alive. Many consider him… Read More Happy Birthday, Hume: 308 Little Candles!
No dia 25 de Janeiro deste ano, quando estava em Seoul, coloquei aqui neste blog um artigo sobre David Hume, o filósofo escocês sobre o qual escrevi minha tese de doutoramento em 1971-1972 (defendida junto ao Department of Philosophy of the College of Arts and Sciences of the University of Pittsburgh em 8 de Agosto… Read More David Hume, Novamente
Escrevi minha tese de doutoramento, nos idos dos anos 1970-72 (já lá vão mais de 35 anos que a defendi, na University of Pittsburgh), sobre David Hume, filósofo escocês do século XVIII (1711-1776). Quando a concluí, em 1972, eu tinha a mesma idade dele quando publicou A Treatise of Human Nature, sua primeira obra —… Read More David Hume, Filósofo
Biographical Notes on David Hume prepared by Eduardo Chaves, who wrote about him his Ph.D. Dissertation in the years 1970-1972 in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences of the University of Pittsburgh. The Notes are supplemented by two quotes from well known encyclopedias. David Hume, Scottish author whose life encompasses most of the eighteenth-century,… Read More Biographical Notes on David Hume
