David Hume

Tags: Philosopher.

David Hume (/ˈhjuːm/; 7 May [O.S. 26 April] 1711 – 25 August 1776) was a Scottish philosopher historian economist and essayist known especially for his philosophical empiricism and skepticism. He was one of the most important figures in the history of Western philosophy and the Scottish Enlightenment.

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birth date

1711-04-26

birth place

Edinburgh

death date

1776-08-25

death place

Edinburgh

era

Age of Enlightenment

influenced

A. J. Ayer, Adam Smith, Albert Einstein, Arthur Schopenhauer, Bertrand Russell, Edmund Husserl, Gilles Deleuze, Immanuel Kant, James Madison, John Stuart Mill, Karl Popper, Thomas Reid, Jerry Fodor, Simon Blackburn, William James, J. L. Mackie, Baron d'Holbach

influenced by

Cicero, Adam Smith, George Berkeley, Isaac Newton, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, John Locke, René Descartes, Thomas Hobbes, Francis Hutcheson (philosopher)

LCCN Id

n/79/54039

main interest

Aesthetics, Epistemology, Ethics, Metaphysics, Philosophy of religion, Political philosophy, Philosophy of mind, Classical economics

notableIdea

Bundle theory, Inductive reasoning, Science of man, Causality, Utility, Association of Ideas, Is–ought problem

philosophicalSchool

Classical liberalism, Empiricism, Utilitarianism, Scottish Enlightenment, Philosophical skepticism, Naturalism (philosophy)

region

Western philosophy