On April 26, 1711, the baptismal register in Edinburgh reported the birth of a “son named David ... with great ideas, and rendered me happy.” Why? Most obviously because Hume’s bracing ...

According to its proponents, justification for anything is impossible unless God exists. In the 18th century, an agnostic, if not atheistic, philosopher named David Hume shook European philosophy ...

and their ideas the central intellectual engine of the Scottish Enlightenment. In The Infidel and the Professor: David Hume, Adam Smith, and the Friendship that Shaped Modern Thought, Dennis ...

David Hume was born three hundred years ago, in 1711. The world has changed radically since his time, and yet many of his ideas and admonitions remain deeply relevant, though rather neglected ...

In fact, the mid-18th century philosopher David Hume put forward the extraordinary ... Historians cannot answer whether it was God who raised Jesus…” Likewise, the popular atheist, and critic ...