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	David Hume - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Hume was heavily influenced by empiricists John Locke and George Berkeley, along with various Francophone writers such as Pierre Bayle, and various figures on the Anglophone intellectual landscape such as Isaac Newton, Samuel Clarke, Francis Hutcheson, and Joseph Butler.
		Hume's view is that human behavior, like everything else, is caused, and therefore holding people responsible for their actions should focus on rewarding them or punishing them in such a way that they will try to do what is morally desirable and will try to avoid doing what is morally reprehensible.
		Hume's idea on private property is special—private property was not a natural right, but is justified since it is a limited good.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/David_Hume (6283 words)

	Hume's Aesthetics
		Hume's aesthetic theory received limited attention until the second half of the Twentieth Century, when interest in the full range of Hume's thought was enlivened by the gradual recognition of his importance among philosophers writing in English.
		Hume's acknowledgment of regular, predictable causes of the moral and aesthetic sentiment is sometimes taken as an indication that Hume is not a genuine subjectivist.
		Hume's theory of sentiments requires that if we are going to have an aesthetic evaluation of a play's plotting and language, then we are also going to have a moral response to its display of virtue and vice.
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/hume-aesthetics (9734 words)

	David Hume (1711-76). (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Hume's widowed mother5 devoted herself to the education of "several young children." She came from an influential family, her father being Sir David Falconer, President of the College of Justice.
		Hume never married and as a bachelor led a "peripatetic life." At Scotland with his family he enjoyed a "sophisticated, gregarious and bucolic intellectual life...
		Hume was of the view that no matter how many individual observations an investigator may come up with (empiricism), he would never be in a position to make an unrestricted general statement.
	www.blupete.com /Literature/Biographies/Philosophy/Hume.htm (3171 words)

	David Hume
		Hume managed to extricate himself from this situation, and accepted the invitation of his cousin, Lieutenant-General James St. Clair, to be his Secretary ("I wore the uniform of an officer.") on a military expedition against the French in Quebec.
		Hume sometimes describes benevolence as a manifestation of our "natural" or "social sympathy." In both texts, Hume's central point is that we experience this "feeling for humanity" in ourselves and observe it in others, so "the selfish hypothesis" is "contrary both to common feeling and to our most unprejudiced notions" (EPM, 298).
		Hume summarizes his account in this definition of virtue, or Personal Merit: "every quality of the mind, which is useful or agreeable to the person himself or to others, communicates a pleasure to the spectator, engages his esteem, and is admitted under the honourable denomination of virtue or merit" (EPM, 277).
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/hume (8104 words)

	The Philosophy of David Hume - Page 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Hume accepted dogmatically what had been the initial step for Locke and Berkeley -- namely, that the object of knowledge is solely the sense impressions perceived by the subject.
		Hume logically developed to its extreme conclusions the empiristic principle that subjective impressions alone are the immediate objects of knowledge.
		Hume is a representative British type: litterateur, philosopher, politician, man of affairs and of the world.
	www.radicalacademy.com /phildavidhume1.htm (1039 words)

	David HUME
		David Hume was one of the most prominent figures of the Scottish Enlightenment and a close friend of Adam Smith.
		Hume's automatic flow mechanism of international trade lent credence to the idea that there was a "natural balance" of trade between nations which deliberate policy moves could not contradict.
		But Hume was not a believer of the "natural law" or "social contract" theories popular with contemporary political and social philosophers.
	cepa.newschool.edu /het/profiles/hume.htm (1072 words)

	David Hume -- Writings on Religion [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
		Hume appears to have been unfamiliar with the medieval versions of the theistic proofs, and, like most of his British contemporaries, does not even discuss the ontological argument.
		Hume used all of the rhetorical devices at his disposal, and left it to his readers to decode his most controversial conclusions.
		Only a few of Hume's early respondents were active philosophers; most, instead, were theologians who believed that Hume posed a real threat to religion and they accordingly responded as defenders of their faith.
	www.iep.utm.edu /h/humereli.htm (4187 words)

	Hume: Epistemology
		Hume's analysis of human belief begins with a careful distinction among our mental contents: impressions are the direct, vivid, and forceful products of immediate experience; ideas are merely feeble copies of these original impressions.
		According to Hume, our belief that events are causally related is a custom or habit acquired by experience: having observed the regularity with which events of particular sorts occur together, we form the association of ideas that produces the habit of expecting the effect whenever we experience the cause.
		To suppose otherwise, Hume held, is to commit a category mistake: the self is just a bundle of perceptions, like the railroad cars in a train; to look for a self beyond the ideas would be like looking for a train beyond the cars.
	www.philosophypages.com /hy/4t.htm (2151 words)

	Glossary of People: Hu
		David Hume lived in the constitutional monarchy of George II under the Prime Ministers Walpole, Pelham and Pitt, a Britain which had thoroughly established a stable bourgeois system of government and was interested in building its Empire.
		Hume accepted Berkeley's proof, but developed the philosophy of Scepticism, a British compromise, in which, while the knowledge we gain from experience cannot constitute theoretcial knowledge or necessity, it is good enough for practical purposes, sufficient for practical life.
		Husserl made an intensive study of the British Empiricists, such as Locke, Berkeley, Hume, and J S Mill, and the logic and semantics stemming from this tradition, especially the logic of Mill, and studied the attempts at a "psycho-logic" grounding of logic then being made in Germany.
	www.marxists.org /glossary/people/h/u.htm (1711 words)

	Hume - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Hume, Australian Capital Territory, a suburb of Canberra
		Division of Hume, an electoral district in the Australian House of Representatives, in New South Wales.
		Hume is the name of the Human race in the computer role playing game series Final Fantasy
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hume (285 words)

	Hume Bibliography (Potkay) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Excellent essays on Hume in relation to Hutcheson, Butler, Reid and Kant; to natural law and utilitarianism; to the early modern discussion of miracles and the ancient art of the philosophical dialogue.
		Stewart champions Hume as an enlightened liberal rather than, as he is often seen, a conservative philosopher.
		Using Hume's essay "Of Eloquence" as a focal point, examines the eighteenth-century rise and fall of oratory as a stylistic and civic ideal.
	www.c18.rutgers.edu /biblio/hume.html (1642 words)

	Hume
		David Hume's was a superb essayist, a brilliant philosopher, and a world-class bon vivant.
		Garrett says that Hume treated reason as something a psychologist could study and that he was the first philosopher who is interested in cognitive psychology.
		Hume was a compatibilist, that is, he thought that determinism and free will are compatible.
	www.philosophytalk.org /pastShows/Hume.htm (731 words)

	David Hume Philosophy: Explaining Hume's Problem of Causation, Skepticism. Philosopher David Hume Quotes
		Thus as Hume demanded, we have replaced Inductive Logic from repeated observation of effects with Deductive Logic from the Principles of the WSM, which explain matter's necessary connection by explaining the cause of the 'Particle' effect.
		Hume argued that it does not, that it is simply a habit of thinking and that it is quite possible that at some stage in the future the stone will not fall.
		Thus Hume's skepticism is valid and has subsequently plagued Philosophy and the sciences with a terribly destructive doubt and a fertile environment for all kinds of absurdity and mysticism.
	www.spaceandmotion.com /Philosophy-David-Hume-Philosopher.htm (8227 words)

	Hume Links
		Hume's Ideas: A hypertext examination of Hume's arguments on the origin of ideas (by Richard Lee)
		Kelley Ross, "Hume Shifts the Burden of Proof"
		Stephen Darwall, "Hume V" (lecture notes for history of ethics)
	comp.uark.edu /~rlee/semiau98/humelink.html (347 words)

	David Hume, Biography: The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics: Library of Economics and Liberty
		Hume explained that as net exports increased and more gold flowed into a country to pay for them, the prices of goods in that country would rise.
		Hume showed that the increase in domestic prices due to the gold inflow would discourage exports and encourage imports, thus automatically limiting the amount by which exports would exceed imports.
		Hume died the year The Wealth of Nations was published, and in the presence of its author, Adam Smith.
	www.econlib.org /library/Enc/bios/Hume.html (546 words)

	Hume
		Since the causal interactions of physical objects are known to us only as inherently uncertain matters of fact, Hume argued, our belief that they exhibit any necessary connection (however explicable) can never be rationally justified, but must be acknowledged to rest only upon our acquired habits.
		In similar fashion, Hume argued that we cannot justify our natural beliefs in the reality of the self or the existence of an external world.
		In both texts Hume clearly maintained that human agency and moral obligation are best considered as functions of human passions rather than as the dictates of reason.
	www.philosophypages.com /ph/hume.htm (416 words)

	Hume Shifts the Burden of Proof
		Hume's own certainty, indeed, rises to the level of dogmatism, disparaging, not just the "superstition" of Roman Catholicism, but even attacking geometry, along with metaphysics, for the problems of infinite divisibility.
		Unfortunately for Hume, his attack here cannot just be on "geometricians and metaphysicians," it must also be on physicists, for Newton's calculus of infinitesimal quantities is part of the geometry of infinite divisibility.
		While Hume does not go as far as much more recent theory, it is rarely recognized, as it was by Kant, that he shut off much of science as well as religion with his empiricism.
	www.friesian.com /hume.htm (2058 words)

	David Hume Project
		It is intended that each Hume text published here be accompanied (either immediately, or in due course) by a survey of the relevant secondary literature, to enable those researching, teaching, or studying the text to get to grips with current debates quickly and easily.
		Hume scholars are invited to offer their work for publication here, but such work will be accepted only with the written agreement of the copyright holder, and only if the author guarantees that the work is in a reliable and permanent form.
		In keeping with the character of Hume himself, Society meetings are noted for their congeniality and good humour as much as for their intellectual depth.
	www.etext.leeds.ac.uk /hume (816 words)

	Hume, Joseph articles on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Hume, Joseph HUME, JOSEPH [Hume, Joseph] 1777-1855, English politician and reformer.
		Hume was a leader in almost all the reform issues of the day.
		An exponent of occasionalism and precursor to Hume, Glanvill sought to prove the inefficacy of all secondary causes, which he regarded
	www.encyclopedia.com /articles/22504.html (267 words)

	Philosophy- Squashed Hume- Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding - Condensed Abridged
		David Hume is now generally considered the founder of both the Scottish enlightenment and the centrepiece of the British tradition of empirical philosophy.
		Mr Hume is an engaging writer, so we hope to have captured as much of his style as possible.
		Fortunately for the editor, Mr Hume is also extraordinarily fond of repeating the same points over and over, giving long-winded explanations and a dozen examples where one or two would do.
	www.btinternet.com /~glynhughes/squashed/hume.htm (7056 words)

	Technorati Tag: Hume
		Hume - VA, Bed and Breakfasts Thousands of US bed and breakfasts and b and b gift certificates.
		Last night (6/6) on Special Report with Brit Hume, the top story during the "Two Minutes of Hate" (AKA "Grapevine") segment was an additional hit...
		Last night's (6/5) Special Report with Brit Hume covered a handful of topics, but focused on one general theme throughout: the President's push to...
	technorati.com /tag/Hume (588 words)

	Philosophers : David Hume (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Hume carried the empiricism of Locke and George Berkeley to the logical extreme of radical skepticism.
		He repudiated the possibility of certain knowledge, finding in the mind nothing but a series of sensations, and held that cause-and-effect in the natural world derives solely from the conjunction of two impressions.
		Hume's skepticism is also evident in his writings on religion, in which he rejected any rational or natural theology.
	www.trincoll.edu /depts/phil/philo/phils/hume.html (107 words)

	Index
		Welcome to the Town of Hume, Allegany County, New York.
		The Town of Hume is a rural area with a population of 1987
		The Town of Hume has established these pages as a link between the Town government and the citizens of the Town to provide a means of public notice, access to information, and general communication for the good of all.
	www.humetown.org (146 words)

	Hume Studies Archival Project
		You will be prompted for your Hume Society username and password.
		If you are a member and do not have a password, please apply for one.
		If you are not a Hume Society member, consider membership.
	www.humesociety.org /hs (54 words)

	DAVID HUME
		Among the interesting features of Hume's empiricist philosophy are a revolutionary view of causality, the problem of induction, and the distinction between fact and value.
		Hume advocates various forms of moderate or mitigated skepticism.
		Hume Archives, including an electronic text of An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, various reviews of Hume's A Treatise of Human Nature as well as accounts of Hume's life, both biographical and autobiographical.
	oregonstate.edu /instruct/phl302/philosophers/hume.html (673 words)

	The Hume Language: Home Page
		Hume (Higher-order Unified Meta-Environment) is a strongly typed, mostly-functional language with an integrated tool set for developing, proving and assessing concurrent, safety-critical systems.
		Hume aims to extend the frontiers of language design for resource-limited systems, including real-time embedded and safety-critical systems, by introducing new levels of abstraction and provability.
		The Hume interpreter, documentatation and sample programs are now available for download.
	www-fp.dcs.st-and.ac.uk /hume (177 words)

	Don Hume Leathergoods
		Manufacturers of law enforcement and private sector concealment carry duty belts, gun holsters, shoulder rigs, trouser belts, magazine holders, handcuff cases, baton holders, radio holders, mace holders, badge holders, glove puches, flashlight holders, cell phone holders, and accessories in quality leather and nylon.
		Don Hume Leathergoods has long been regarded as one of the finest leathergoods manufacturers in the world, consistently supplying the law enforcement community with gun holsters, belts, handcuff cases and related leather equipment.
		Don Hume Leathergoods has designed and produced quality leather products for over 40 years, and we are committed to serving our customers in the years to come.
	www.donhume.com (387 words)

	How FOXNews, Owned by Rupert Murdoch and Managed by Republican Operative Roger Ailes, Tries to Trivialize The Deaths of ...
		Two hundred and seventy seven U.S. soldiers have now died in Iraq, which means that, statistically speaking, U.S. soldiers have less of a chance of dying from all causes in Iraq than citizens have of being murdered in California...which is roughly the same geographical size.
		That brings us back to Brit Hume, who was an apologist for Bush the Elder, playing tennis with the administration back then.
		Also, now you see why FOX News is technically correct and unfair and unbalanced in saying that most of American voted for Bush in 2000 -- this is true if you are counting acreage or square miles (red versus blue on the map) and not people.
	www.buzzflash.com /analysis/03/08/29_fox.html (822 words)

	USATODAY.com - Hume Cronyn, a trouper for seven decades (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Perhaps Hume Cronyn saw himself as A Terrible Liar, the title of his 1991 memoir.
		But for generations of theater and film fans, Cronyn was a brilliant actor whose vigorous, sometimes brusque presence lent credibility and insight to a wide variety of roles.
		The Canadian-born thespian, who died of prostate cancer Sunday at 91, also wrote, directed and produced drama during a career that spanned seven decades.
	www.usatoday.com /life/2003-06-16-cronyn-usat_x.htm (505 words)

	The Hume Society
		The Hume Society is an international organization whose purpose is to stimulate scholarship on all aspects of Hume's thought and writings.
		It is open to everyone interested in Hume and his philosophical contemporaries.
		The Hume Society receives institutional support from the Cleveland State University Department of Philosophy, the Department of Philosophy, St. Olaf College and the University of Akureryi.
	www.humesociety.org (114 words)

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