For this assignment you are asked to write a short essay, of around 1,000 – 1,200 words, on the following aspects of Hume’s philosophy. Hume’s skepticism about our ability to have any true knowledge of the world around us. His theories on judgments as ‘relations of ideas’ and ‘matters of fact’. His assertions on the impossibility of proof of causality His theory of the ‘Principle of Induction’. |