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Morris, William Edward and Brown, Charlotte. (2016) David Hume. In Zalta (Ed.) (2016). Retrieved from http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr2016/entries/hume/.

Title David Hume
Resource Type collection article
Author(s) William Edward Morris, Charlotte Brown
Year 2016
URL http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr2016/entries/hume/
Collection Zalta (Ed.) (2016)

Abstract

Generally regarded as one of the most important philosophers to write in English, David Hume (b. 1711, d. 1776) was also well known in his own time as an historian and essayist. A master stylist in any genre, his major philosophical works—A Treatise of Human Nature (1739–1740), the Enquiries concerning Human Understanding (1748) and concerning the Principles of Morals (1751), as well as his posthumously published Dialogues concerning Natural Religion (1779)—remain widely and deeply influential.