This was the most manageable of Hume's many disputes, since here the enemy was only a bunch of philosophers, and a relatively small bunch at that—Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Malebranche, and a f...

Here Hume was not challenging a particular school of thought; he was challenging a whole style of thinking. Let's get specific: he was actually challenging the view that there could be fixed, knowa...

There have always been questions among scholars about Hume's personal religious views. Now, it's true that in conversations with friends, Hume's attitudes seemed more ambiguous and nuanced, but in...