“Indulge your passion for science…but let your science be human, and such as may have a direct reference to action and society. Be a philosopher; but amidst all your philosophy, be still a man.” These ...

Neil Sinhababu, a professor from National University of Singapore, visited UConn on Tuesday Sept. 27 and gave a speech on human nature. The speech was based on the theory of Humean nature and desire ...

Nietzsche and Hume agreed that desire drives all human action and practical reasoning. This shared view helped them appreciate the continuity between human and animal motivation, and set them against ...

David Hume was born three hundred years ago, in 1711. The world has changed radically since his time, and yet many of his ideas and admonitions remain deeply relevant, though rather neglected, in the ...

If the laws of nature are as the Humean believes, it is an unexplained cosmic coincidence that the actual Humean mosaic is as extremely regular as it is. This is a strong and well-known objection to ...