Historical Thinker, Historical Writer
by
Mark G. Spencer
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
This volume provides a new and nuanced appreciation of David Hume as a historian. Gone for good are the days when one can offhandedly assert, as R. G. Collingwood once did, that Hume “deserted philosophical studies in favour of historical” ones. History and philosophy are commensurate in Hume’s...