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Moral and Political PhilosophyA Collection of essays from famous Scottish philosopher David Hume, one of the most prominent figures of the Scottish Enlightenment and a close friend...Read More
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Huffington Post, April 30, 2012
...that far from Robert Lucas and Gérard Debreu to John Maynard Keynes to Jeremy Bentham, Adam Smith and David Hume. On the blogosphere this week, an intense and fascinating discussion of these issues surfaced that, to a layperson, is almost...
The Economist, April 26, 2012
...hindsight. The narrator is Edgar Logan, who has come to Edinburgh from Paris to translate the work of David Hume, a Scottish Enlightenment philosopher. While in Scotland, he becomes intrigued by the personality of a colleague, Harry Sanderson, a man in...
Airdrie City View, April 25, 2012
...key to understanding human nature. Take a few moments to chew on that. Borrowing from the 18th-century philosopher David Hume, Haidt contends that, contrary to what most of us may want to believe about ourselves, reason is generally subservient to...
Examiner.com, April 24, 2012
...know.): In Haidt's retelling, all the fools, foils and villains of intellectual history are recast as heroes. David Hume, the Scottish philosopher who notoriously said reason was fit only to be 'the slave of the passions,' was largely correct. So what...
IC Places, April 24, 2012
...PRWebAtheists, secular humanists, and free-thinkers have been wearing Dorothy's ruby slippers for approximately the past 75 years (since publication of Karl Popper's "Logic der Forschung") and have been lacking only the understanding of how to click...
Medfield Patch, April 24, 2012
...art, she holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Boston University. Her interests include the 18th-century Scottish philosopher David Hume (the subject of her forthcoming book), the philosophy of art, and the philosophy of the mind. Describing her dual roles as...
Jamaica Plain Patch, April 23, 2012
...art, she holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Boston University. Her interests include the 18th-century Scottish philosopher David Hume (the subject of her forthcoming book), the philosophy of art, and the philosophy of the mind. Describing her dual roles as...
Washington Times, March 2, 2012
...stripes bestow on particular values. (Intuition, as distinguished from reason, seems to Mr. Haidt - a follower of David Hume - as the driving human force.) It turns out, not surprisingly, that liberals ground their worldviews upon the values of ?Care?...
Londonderry Sentinel, March 1, 2012
...during the run up to the biggest festival in Northern Ireland. Grand Orange Lodge Director of Services, Dr David Hume said: “The three venues impressed the judging panel because of their contacts with their local councils and other stakeholders and...
Wired News, March 1, 2012
...are smarter than us? While there is an extensive literature on the potential wisdom of human emotion – David Hume was a prescient guy – it’s only in the last few years that researchers have demonstrated that the emotional system (aka Type 1...
Sojourners, March 1, 2012
...Franklin Graham in his home office, Boone, N.C. 2003. Photo by David Hume Kennerly/. When Franklin Graham expressed doubts about President Obama’s Christian faith during and interview on Morning Joe last week, it reminded me of an uncomfortable dinner...
New American, March 1, 2012
...denunciations of Rationalism and her affirmation of “natural rights” that the conflict exists, for as conservative theorists from David Hume and Edmund Burke onward have noted, the popular doctrine of “natural rights” is the product of the...
The Scotsman, March 1, 2012
...Sandy Stoddart, who was behind other striking tributes to the likes of James Clerk Maxwell, Adam Smith and David Hume, has started work on the new statue, which will have pride of place in a new-look Chambers Street. The Playfair statue would be...
