James A. Harris is professor of the history of philosophy at the University of St Andrews, where he has taught since 2004. He is the author of the acclaimed Hume: An Intellectual Biography, and of many articles and book chapters on aspects of Hume's thought. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
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David Hume, philosopher, historian, economist, librarian, and essayist, was one of the great figures of the European Enlightenment. Unlike some of his famous contemporaries, however, he was not dogmatically committed to idealized conceptions of reason, li... SEE MORE