David Hume

David Hume (1711–1776) was a Scottish philosopher, historian, and essayist whose work fundamentally reshaped the landscape of modern philosophy. He is the central figure in empiricism and skepticism, the author of the most devastating critique of causal inference ever written, and the architect of a moral philosophy that grounded ethics in sentiment rather than reason. His influence spans epistemology, metaphysics, ethics, philosophy of mind, economics, and political theory — an intellectual footprint so broad that Kant, who claimed Hume awakened him from his dogmatic