2 February 2021David Hume is generally acknowledged as one of the greatest philosophers all time – author ground-breaking contributions to moral philosophy, political philosop...

This article examines the connection, personal and intellectual, between David Hume Edmund Burke. Scholars have often compared two thinkers, mainly in an unsystematic selective way. Burke’s early biographers regarded them as opposite figures on account of Hume’s religious philosophical scepticism devout Christian faith. By contrast, modern scholars stress their intellectual kinship. More specif...

Despite his well-known criticisms of popular religion, Hume refers in seemingly complimentary terms to ‘true religion’; in Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, his character Philo goes so far as to express ‘veneration for’ it. This paper addresses three questions. First, did Hume himself really approve of something that he called ‘true religion’? Second, what did he mean by calling it ‘true’?...

RICHARD W. PAYNE Department of Haematology, Worcester Royal Infirmary, Worcester WR5 JHN, UK The further investigation of suspected polycythaemia in patients with an elevated venous haematocrit is a not infrequent problem in haematological practice. Measurement of the actual red cell mass (ARCM) in such patients is relatively simple, using standard radioisotope dilution techniques (Internationa...

This paper describes Hume: a novel domain-specific language whose purpose is to explore the expressibility/costability spectrum in resource-constrained systems, such as real-time embedded or control systems. Hume provides a number of high level features including higherorder functions, polymorphic types, arbitrary but sized user-defined data structures, asynchronous processes, lightweight excep...

A recent discussion of Hume's argument concerning the rationality of accepting a belief that a miracle has occurred is given by J. L. Mackie in The Miracle of Theism. Mackie believes that Hume's argument is essentially correct, although he attempts to clarify and strengthen it. Any version of Hume's argument depends upon one's conception of miracles and laws of nature; I will argue that Mackie ...

In this note we derive Robinson’s Arithmetic from Hume’s Principle in the context of very weak theories of classes and relations.