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Nobel Prize laureate Professor Amartya Sen presents a lecture entitled David Hume and the Demands of Ethics.The Professor of Economics and Philosophy at Harvard University gave his lecture as part of the University’s celebration of philosoph
Lord Sutherland of Houndwood presents, "David Hume and Civil Society".David Hume's thinking was radical and thorough. This was his strength, but also a source of ammunition to his enemies. He has been interpreted as being scathingly negati
"Hume, Kant, and the Passion for Reason" by Professor Paul Guyer, was presented as part of the prestigious Edinburgh Philosophy lecture series, the Nature of Knowledge Lectures.Recorded Wednesday 14 December 2011Audio version.
The importance of the Treatise and Hume's project for establishing a Science of Man for the Scottish Enlightenment has been overlooked. It is suggested that the response it elicited from the Scottish intellectual community played a decisive
Hume's contribution to modern economics is normally thought of in terms of his early statement of the quantity theory of money, and to a lesser extent his views on trade and development. At a methodological level the influence from his empir
David Hume's theory of justice led him to articulate and argue for a very influential theory of what has come to be called the "circumstances of justice" - those circumstances in which justice is both possible and necessary. John Rawls, amon
One of the most provocative and influential books of the last decade in the cognitive sciences has been Dan Wegner's 'the illusion of conscious will'. In his book Wegner extensively makes use of Hume's theory of causality to make his claim t
This lecture will focus on three aspects of Hume's scepticism surrounding religious belief and practice: the challenge to the traditional arguments for the divine existence; the attack on the reliability of reports of miracles; and his accou
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