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In 1738, the Scottish philosopher David Hume differentiated intellectual curiosity from a more primitive form of curiosity: . The same theory, that accounts for the love of truth in mathematics and algebra, may be extended to morals, politics, natural philosophy, and other studies, where we consider not the other abstract relations of ideas, but their real connexions and existence.
Scottish philosophy is a philosophical tradition created by philosophers belonging to Scottish universities. Although many philosophers such as Francis Hutcheson, David Hume, Thomas Reid, and Adam Smith are familiar to almost all philosophers it was not until the 19th century that the notion of 'Scottish philosophy' became recognized and highly regarded internationally.
Hume was born on 26 April 1711, as David Home, in a tenement on the north side of Edinburgh's Lawnmarket.He was the second of two sons born to Catherine Home (née Falconer), daughter of Sir David Falconer of Newton, Midlothian and his wife Mary Falconer (née Norvell), [14] and Joseph Home of Chirnside in the County of Berwick, an advocate of Ninewells.
Cameo of Thomas Reid by James Tassie, Hunterian Museum, Glasgow. Thomas Reid FRSE (/ r iː d /; 7 May (O.S. 26 April) 1710 [6] – 7 October 1796) was a religiously trained Scottish philosopher best known for his philosophical method, his theory of perception, and its wide implications on epistemology, and as the developer and defender of an agent-causal theory of free will.
His criticism of Berkeley (in the second volume) is, however, based on the common misinterpretation of his theory. Sir Leslie Stephen described him as a curious example of "the effects of an exploded metaphysics on a feeble though ingenious intellect". [2] Baxter's ideas on dreams were contested by Thomas Branch in his Thoughts on Dreaming ...
David Hume. The Scottish School of Common Sense was an epistemological philosophy that flourished in Scotland in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. [4] Its roots can be found in responses to the writings of such philosophers as John Locke, George Berkeley and David Hume, and its most prominent members were Dugald Stewart, Thomas Reid, William Hamilton and, as has recently been argued ...
Alexander Bain (philosopher) Robert Balfour (philosopher) Andrew Baxter; James Beattie (poet) John Bethune (Scottish minister) Hugh Binning; Hector Boece; Thomas Brown (philosopher) Robert Buchanan (playwright) James Burnett, Lord Monboddo
A portrait of Lord Kames by David Martin An illustration of Lord Kames, Hugo Arnot and Lord Monboddo by John Kay The Home-Drummond grave, Kincardine-in-Menteith. Henry Home, Lord Kames (1696–27 December 1782) was a Scottish writer, philosopher and judge who played a major role in Scotland's Agricultural Revolution.