DAVID HUME
He examines how reason and emotion actually work in judgment, placing confidence back before the evidence of experience.
1711–1776EmpiricismScotland
Core ideas
EXPERIENCEEMOTIONCAUSATIONHABITMORALITY
Works & sources
A Treatise of Human Nature · An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
DAVID HUME, a first reading
Hume examined how experience, habit, and feeling shape knowledge and judgment.
Causation and habit: what does it mean?
Repeated experience leads us to expect similar outcomes. Hume questions whether logic alone guarantees that expectation; this invites scrutiny of the grounds and limits of confidence rather than abandoning causal inquiry.