People can be either born with aphantasia or develop it later, but it’s typically not considered a disability or medical condition. But aphantasia isn’t known to prevent people from having a firm ...

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If you take a passing casual interest in philosophy, there are probably at least two things you know about David Hume. One thing — most recently in the news — is that he was a racist. In fact Hume's ...

According to the Scottish philosopher David Hume (1711-1776), humans are fundamentally social. It’s only by connecting with others — those that are like us and those that are unlike us — that we ...

Leading academics at the University of Edinburgh have written a scathing letter to its principal, condemning the renaming of David Hume Tower, and warning that the decision has undermined the ...

How did one of the greatest philosophers who ever lived get so much wrong? David Hume certainly deserves his place in the philosophers’ pantheon, but when it comes to politics, he erred time and again ...

If you judged David Hume the man by his philosophy, you may judge him as disagreeable. He was a Scottish philosopher who epitomized what it means to be skeptical – to doubt both authority and the self ...

On April 26, 1711, the baptismal register in Edinburgh reported the birth of a “son named David” to John Home and Katherine Falconer. In a different hand, written many decades later, another city ...

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