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
Dissertation Abstracts International, February 1973, Volume 33, Number 8, Segment A: The Humanities and Social Sciences (Xerox University Microfilms, Xerox), pp.4467-A and 4468-A. DAVID HUME’S PHILOSOPHICAL CRITIQUE OF THEOLOGY AND ITS SIGNIFICANCE FOR THE HISTORY OF CHRISTIAN THOUGHT Eduardo O. C. Chaves, Ph.D. University of Pittsburgh, 1972 ABSTRACT Commentators on Hume often say that Hume’s… Read More Abstract of my Ph.D. Thesis on David Hume
Below, my class of almost three hours — unfortunately, for the English speakers, in Portuguese — about “David Hume and Religion”, taught, on 3-Mar-2019, in the course “Philosophy of Religion”, in the Graduate Program of Religion of the Methodist University of São Paulo (which, curiously, is not located in the city of São Paulo, but… Read More David Hume and Religion: A Talk (in Portuguese)
[ This article, “David Hume and the Great Divide Between Traditional and Modern Thought about God”, was presented on the Third Annual Conference on “God: The Contemporary Discussion”, sponsored by the New Ecumenical Research Association (New ERA), San Juan, Porto Rico, from 30- December-1983 thru 4-January-1984 ] o O o Peter Gay once mentioned that… Read More David Hume and the Great Divide between Traditional and Modern Thought about God
On May 1, 1970, after finishing my Master’s Program and upon being admitted into the Ph.D. Program, I immediately started working on what I intended to be my Ph.D. Dissertation: Hume’s Critique of Religion. It was. I finished the Ph.D. two years, three months and eight days after that, on August 8, 1972. I never… Read More Going Back to Working on David Hume: A Commitment
