David Hume
1711–1776
Scottish empiricist philosopher and historian.
David Hume (1711–1776) was a philosopher, born and died in Edinburgh.
- Known as
- Philosopher
- Category
- Thinkers
- Born
- 1711, Edinburgh
- Died
- 1776, Edinburgh
Age of Enlightenment
- Voltaire 1694–1778, philosopher
- Adam Smith 1723–1790, economist and philosopher
- Immanuel Kant 1724–1804, philosopher
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712–1778, philosopher
Alive at the same time as David Hume
- Voltaire 1694–1778, philosopher
- Anne Bonny c. 1697–c. 1782, pirate
- John Wesley 1703–1791, religious leader
- Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab 1703–1792, religious leader
- Benjamin Franklin 1706–1790, statesman and inventor
- Carl Linnaeus 1707–1778, biologist
- Leonhard Euler 1707–1783, mathematician
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712–1778, philosopher
- Denis Diderot 1713–1784, philosopher
- Adam Smith 1723–1790, economist and philosopher
- Immanuel Kant 1724–1804, philosopher
- Edmund Burke 1729–1797, political thinker
Portrait: Allan Ramsay, Public domain.
