David Hume

Scottish philosopher, economist, and historian (1711-1776)

Scottish philosopher (1710–1796)

philosophical problem articulated by David Hume in 1739 about how one can deduce prescriptive statements (what ought to be) from descriptive statements (what is)

epistemological question of whether inductive reasoning leads to definitive knowledge understood in the classic philosophical sense

statement about the burden of proof made by various writers throughout history and famously cited by Carl Sagan on the television programme Cosmos

English philosophy

Humeanism refers to the philosophy of David Hume and to the tradition of thought inspired by him. Hume was an influential eighteenth century Scottish philosopher well known for his empirical approach, which he applied to various fields in philosophy. In the philosophy of science, he is notable for developing the regularity theory of causation, which in its strongest form states that causation is nothing but constant conjunction of certain types of events without any underlying forces responsible for this regularity of conjunction. This is closely connected to his metaphysical thesis that there