Prof. Amartya Sen - David Hume and the Demands of Ethics
Nobel Prize laureate Professor Amartya Sen presents a lecture entitled David Hume and the Demands of Ethics. The Professor of Economics and Philosophy...
David Hume: Celebrating Connections (audio)
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Join us for a series of lectures to celebrate the legacy of David Hume. 2011 marks the tercentenary of the birth of philosopher David Hume, one of our most distinguished alumni. Throughout the year, distinguished speakers will explore the impact of Hume across a wide range of disciplines. David Hume was born in Edinburgh in 1711, attended the University of Edinburgh from 1723, and died in Edinburgh in 1776, having meanwhile achieved worldwide fame as an historian and philosopher. Hume and his associates were at the heart of the intellectual, literary and cultural events that are now known as the Scottish Enlightenment and he is generally recognised as the greatest philosopher ever to write in English. Today his work is studied by scholars from all over the world. Although Hume wrote in the 18th century, his works continue to be influential across a wide range of scholarship and remain uncommonly relevant to the philosophical disputes of the 21st century and a wide range of current public concerns. It is fitti
Lord Sutherland - David Hume and Civil Society
Lord Sutherland of Houndwood presents, "David Hume and Civil Society". David Hume's thinking was radical and thorough. This was his strength, but also...
Prof Paul Guyer - Hume, Kant, and the Passion for Reason
"Hume, Kant, and the Passion for Reason" by Professor Paul Guyer, was presented as part of the prestigious Edinburgh Philosophy lecture series, the Na...
Hume: Philosophy, History and the Science of Man - Dr Nicholas Phillipson
The importance of the Treatise and Hume's project for establishing a Science of Man for the Scottish Enlightenment has been overlooked. It is suggeste...
The Relevance of Hume for Modern Economics - Prof Sheila Dow
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...
Hume, The Circumstances of Justice, and Paternalism - Prof Mike Ridge
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 justi...
The Illusion of Conscious Will: On Wegner's use of Hume's Associationism - Dr Tillman Vierkant
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'....
Hume as Religious Sceptic - Prof David Fergusson
This lecture will focus on three aspects of Hume's scepticism surrounding religious belief and practice: the challenge to the traditional arguments fo...