I try to create a coherent narrative from the totality of Hume’s 1776 autobiographical record “My Own Life”. I account for the saying ascribed to his mother (‘Our Davie […] is uncommon wake-minded’), Hume’s declared decision not to reply to any adversary, his representation of his writings as unsuccessful and his opulence as a valuable achievement. In particular, I explore his public and active life (a man of genius is not unfit for business): the army with General St. Clair in Turin and the Embassy with Lord Hertford in Paris. I delineate Hume’s complex relationships with Lawrence Sterne and Adam Smith, his lifelong passion for Lucian and his pagan attitude towards religion: ‘the Edinburgh fishwives were the most acute theologians he has e...
When David Hume wrote to Baron de Montesquieu ‘J’ai consacré ma vie à la philosophie et aux belles-l...
One of the reasons for many different and even opposing interpretations of Hume’s Dialogue...
It is part of the received history of Western civilization that David Hume, the famous Scottish phil...
Paris, Reims and La Flèche in the 30s. Paris in 1748. Again, Paris in the 60s. Hume is always lookin...
There cannot be three passions “more nearly resembling each other” than philosophy, hunting, and gam...
Morère Pierre. David Hume, Essais moraux, politiques et littéraires et autres essais, introd., trad....
Stenger Gerhardt. David Hume :Essais et traités sur plusieurs sujets. IV. Enquête sur les principes ...
James A. Harris's biography of David Hume is the first such study to appear since Ernest Mossner's T...
Scott Yenor argues that David Hume\u27s reputation as a skeptic is greatly exaggerated. In David Hum...
1. A brief outline of Hume’s views on religion1 With French Enlightenment philosophers like Voltaire...
David Hume (1711-1776) is widely recognized as one of the most influential and significant critics o...
National Library of Scotland, MS 23159.7 is a thirty-two line poem in the hand of David Hume (1711–7...
On May 7, 1711 was born in Edinburgh David Hume, historian, economist and philosopher, who made the ...
David Hume (1711-1776) first studied law then philosophy. He spent three years in France (1734-1737)...
The article looks closely at the interpretation of Hume’s ideas and character in the Parisian letter...
When David Hume wrote to Baron de Montesquieu ‘J’ai consacré ma vie à la philosophie et aux belles-l...
One of the reasons for many different and even opposing interpretations of Hume’s Dialogue...
It is part of the received history of Western civilization that David Hume, the famous Scottish phil...
Paris, Reims and La Flèche in the 30s. Paris in 1748. Again, Paris in the 60s. Hume is always lookin...
There cannot be three passions “more nearly resembling each other” than philosophy, hunting, and gam...
Morère Pierre. David Hume, Essais moraux, politiques et littéraires et autres essais, introd., trad....
Stenger Gerhardt. David Hume :Essais et traités sur plusieurs sujets. IV. Enquête sur les principes ...
James A. Harris's biography of David Hume is the first such study to appear since Ernest Mossner's T...
Scott Yenor argues that David Hume\u27s reputation as a skeptic is greatly exaggerated. In David Hum...
1. A brief outline of Hume’s views on religion1 With French Enlightenment philosophers like Voltaire...
David Hume (1711-1776) is widely recognized as one of the most influential and significant critics o...
National Library of Scotland, MS 23159.7 is a thirty-two line poem in the hand of David Hume (1711–7...
On May 7, 1711 was born in Edinburgh David Hume, historian, economist and philosopher, who made the ...
David Hume (1711-1776) first studied law then philosophy. He spent three years in France (1734-1737)...
The article looks closely at the interpretation of Hume’s ideas and character in the Parisian letter...
When David Hume wrote to Baron de Montesquieu ‘J’ai consacré ma vie à la philosophie et aux belles-l...
One of the reasons for many different and even opposing interpretations of Hume’s Dialogue...
It is part of the received history of Western civilization that David Hume, the famous Scottish phil...