In the Old Calton cemetery in Edinburgh, David Hume’s mausoleum, a stout, cylindrical tower, dominates the surrounding tombstones. Contrasting with this imposing tomb, Hume insisted that it carry a ...

This essay is taken from the foreword of George Caffentzis’s Civilizing Money: Hume, his Monetary Project and the Scottish Enlightenment. Caffentzis puts history back into chronology. The British ...

How did one of the greatest philosophers who ever lived get so much wrong? David Hume certainly deserves his place in the philosophers’ pantheon, but when it comes to politics, he erred time and again ...

Professor Elizabeth Radcliffe, who joined the William & Mary philosophy department in the Fall of 2009, is a specialist on the philosophy of David Hume. Hume, an eighteenth-century Scottish thinker ...

David Hume uncovered the roots of revolution in false philosophy. The conservative political tradition is usually thought to begin with Edmund Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France. Burke ...

Must reason override passion to allow for rational action? William & Mary Philosophy Professor Elizabeth Radcliffe’s new book says both are necessary, supporting the theory of 18 th-century ...

Not so long ago, few would have disputed that David Hume was not only the greatest philosopher to come out of Scotland but also of Britain, if not the entire Western world. Did you know with a Digital ...

On Sunday July 7, 1766, James Boswell records in his diary that ‘being too late for church’ he decided to stroll over to St Andrews Square in Edinburgh to visit David Hume, who had recently returned ...

Scotland’s enlightened philosophers did not on the whole have an exciting time of it. Some piquant stories told about them – the infant Adam Smith kidnapped by gypsies, Adam Ferguson leading the ...