Medieval & Modern Philosophy · Early modern
David Hume
The Scottish skeptic: impressions and ideas, the problem of induction, causation as habit, the is–ought gap, reason as 'slave of the passions', the bundle self, and his friendship with Adam Smith.
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Prereqs: Locke. Next: Kant; Adam Smith. Sources: Hume, *A Treatise of Human Nature* (1739–40) and *An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding* (1748); Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.Next: 1. Life