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David Hume

By jamieengleman

  • David Hume (May 7,1711 [April 26: old style] – August 25,1776)

    David Hume (May 7,1711 [April 26: old style] – August 25,1776)
    Empiricism: The early part of the twentieth century (1734 – 1769) Video:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HS52H_CqZLE
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QpUrSn3cWU

  • Empiricism part 1

    Empiricism, in philosophy, the view that all concepts originate in experience, that all concepts are about or applicable to things that can be experienced, or that all rationally acceptable beliefs or propositions are justifiable or knowable only through experience. These “classical” forms of empiricism were based upon the theories about the mind and how it works.

  • Empiricism part 2

    One of the main problems for empiricism has been a tendency to lapse in skepticism, the idea that we cannot know anything about the world. Empiricism has often shown a surprising willingness to throw in the towel on the issue of external world skepticism. External world skepticism asks how can we ever know anything about the real world that lies behind the flow of sensations?

  • Empiricism part 3

    Hume threw in the towel on both external world skepticism and inductive skepticism this however is very unusual. Empiricists like Hume insisted that experience is our only way of finding out what the world is like. As a traditional empiricist Hume was pro-science more focused on personal worldly experience rather than religion and was more politically moderate or liberal. That being said empiricist ideas have tended to be more on the side of a practical more realistic outlook on life.
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    David Hume Major works

    Major works:
    Hume, David. A Treatise of Human Nature: in Two Volumes. Dent, 1739.
    Hume, David. Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding. Kincaid and Donaldson, 1748.
    Hume, David. Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion. 1779.