On April 26, 1711, the baptismal register in Edinburgh reported the birth of a “son named David” to John Home and Katherine Falconer. In a different hand, written many decades later, another city ...

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If you take a passing casual interest in philosophy, there are probably at least two things you know about David Hume. One thing — most recently in the news — is that he was a racist. In fact Hume's ...

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