PHIL202 Timeline

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  • David Hume's Birth

    Edinburgh, Scottland

  • David Hume moved to France

    During his time in France, first in Reims but mainly La Fleche. Hume composed TREATISE OF HUMAN NATURE.

  • David Hume published TREATISE OF HUMAN NATURE

    After moving to London, In the end of 1738 David Hume's Treatise was published and it fell on deaf ears as the press mocked the work.

  • David Hume printed his first political essay and began looking for a

    Hume began publishing political essays at Edinburgh which were more successful that his last publication and inspired him to look for a more permeant position in Edinburgh University but was refused because he was an atheist. In this time he would also began to rewrite A Treatise of Human Nature to clarify some positions and to not offend some readers.

  • David Hume publishes ENQUIRIES CONCERNING HUMAN UNDERSTANDING

    After revising his Treatise of Human Nature he added two chapters "Of Miracles" and "Of Particular Providence and Of a Future State" renaming his work to "Enquires Concerning Human Understanding.

  • David Hume published An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals

    Based oo book 3 of the Treatise and published in November 1751 Hume wrote the Enquiry between 1749 and 1751 when he was staying with his brother at Ninewells. Hume considered it to be his finest work. “In my own opinion (who ought not to judge on that subject) it is of all my writings, historical, philosophical, or literary, incomparably the best: it came unnoticed and unobserved into the world.” (Hume, in his autobiography) A German translation appeared in 1756.

  • David Hume published Political DIscourses

    Hume wrote the Political Discourses between 1749 and 1751 when he was staying with his brother at Ninewells. In "My Own Life" he wrote that it was his only work that was a stand out on the first publication

  • David Hume wrote : The Life of David Hume.

    This autobiography, the title of which Hume devised himself, was published in 1777. It is dated 18 April 1776. Hume died 25 August. It was published by Adam Smith who subsequently claimed that by doing so he had incurred “ten times more abuse than the very violent attack I had made upon the whole commercial system of Great Britain”.

  • David Hume's Death

    Edinburgh, Scottland

  • Karl Popper's Birth

    Was Born in Vienna

  • Karl Popper Joined the Association of Socialist School Studies

  • Karl Popper Earned his Primary School Teaching Degree

  • Noam Chomsky's Birth

  • Karl Popper Published his first book, Logik der Forschung (The Logic of Scientific Discovery).

  • Karl Popper Moved to England to become reader in logic and scientific method at the London School of Economics.

  • Noam Chomsky Entered University of Pennsylvinia

  • Noam Chomsky Began Teaching at Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Noam Chomsky earned his Ph.D from the University of Pennsylvania

  • Noam Chomsky published his book Current Issues in Lingusistics

  • Karl Popper Was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.

  • Noam Chomsky Wrote a book with Morris Halle called The Sound Pattern of English

  • Noam Chomsky delivered the John Locke Lectures at Oxford

  • Noam Chomsky published two books (Language and Mind and Studies on Semantics in Generative Grammar)

  • Noam Chomsky published The Logical Structure of Linguistics

  • Noam Chomsky publish book Knowledge of Language

  • Karl Popper's Death

    Died in Croydon, UK at the age of 92