Full Name: David Hume
Original Name: David Home
Nickname: Hume

Father: Joseph Home
Mother: Katherine Falconer

Date of Birth: 7 May 1711
Birth Place: Edinburgh, Scotland, Great Britain
Date of Death: 25 August 1776 (aged 65)
Death Place: Edinburgh, Scotland, Great Britain
Cause of Death: Cancer - Colon

Remains: Buried, Old Calton Burial Ground, Waterloo Palace, Edinburgh, Scotland
Religion: Atheist
Race or Ethnicity: White

Education: University of Edinburgh
Occupation: Philosopher, Diplomat, Historian
Region: Western Philosophy
Nationality: Scottish

Notable Ideas: Problem of Causation, Bundle Theory, Induction, Association of Ideas, Is–ought Problem, Utility, Science of Man.

Main Interests: Epistemology, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Mind, Ethics, Political Philosophy, Aesthetics, Philosophy of Religion, Classical Economics.

Influenced By: Plato, Socrates, Cicero, Locke, Descartes, Berkeley, Hobbes, Hutcheson, Newton, Pascal, Leibniz, Epicurus.

Influenced: Adam Smith, Adam Ferguson, Immanuel Kant, James Beattie, John Millar, Schopenhauer, Auguste Comte, John Stuart Mill, Charles Darwin, Thomas Huxley, Thomas Robert Malthus, Edmund Husserl, Russell, Ernst Mach, Albert Einstein, Franz Brentano, Alexius Meinong.

Major Writing: A Treatise of Human Nature: Being an Attempt to introduce the experimental Method of Reasoning into Moral Subjects (1740), An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (1748), An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals (1751), A Natural History of Religion (1757), Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion (1779).

Scottish philosopher, historian, economist and essayist David Hume was on 7 May 1711 on the north side of the Lawnmarket in Edinburgh, Scotland, Great Britain. His father, Joseph Home was an advocate and his mother was Katherine Falconer. Hume attended the University of Edinburgh at the unusually early age of twelve in 1723. In 1734 he changed his name Home to Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature is considered a standard of Western philosophy, which was first published anonymously around 1739. Hume has taken his cue from John Locke. In 1740, he published the third volume of Treatise of Human Nature. In 1746, Hume was appointed secretary to General St. Clair. Like his friend Adam Smith, Hume wrote about politics, economics and the moral obligations of government. Some of his most famous works are posthumously published works on religion, including An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals (1751) and Natural History of Religion (1757). In 1763, he was appointed private secretary to Lord Hertford in Paris from 1763 to 1765. Then Hume met with Jean-Jacques Rousseau. In 1767, he was appointed Under-Secretary of State for the Northern Department for a year only. In 1768, he settled his birthplace in Edinburgh. Hume never married. On 25 August 1776, David Hume died and he was buried at Old Calton Burial Ground, Waterloo Palace, Edinburgh, Scotland.