No Abiding City: Hume, Naturalism, and Toleration

No Abiding City: Hume, Naturalism, and Toleration1

This paper rereads David Hume’s Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion as dramatising a distinctive, naturalistic account of toleration. I have two purposes in mind: first, to complete and ground Hume’s fragmentary explicit discussion of toleration; second, to unearth a potentially attractive alternative to more recent, Rawlsian approaches to toleration. To make my case, I connect Dialogues and ...

Hume, the New Hume, and Causal Connections

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heidegger.ontological attitude and naturalism

Deriving Law-Abiding Instances

Liquid Haskell augments the Haskell language with theorem proving capabilities, allowing programmers to express and prove class laws. But many of these proofs require routine, boilerplate code and do not scale well, as the size of proof terms can grow superlinearlywith the size of the datatypes involved in the proofs. We present a technique to derive Haskell proof terms by leveraging datatype-g...

Positivism, Naturalism, and Anti- Naturalism in the Social Sciences