Philosopher, Diplomat, Historian (7-May-1711 — 25-Aug-1776)

SUBJECT OF BOOKS

Shirley Robin Letwin. The Pursuit of Certainty: David Hume, Jeremy Bentham, John Stuart Mill, Beatrice Webb. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press. 1965. 391pp.

Richard Timothy Murphy. Hume and Husserl: Towards Radical Subjectivism. Martinus Nijhoff. 1980. 148pp.

Julius R. Weinberg. Ockham, Descartes, and Hume: Self-Knowledge, Substance, and Causality. University of Wisconsin Press. 1977. 179pp..

AUTHORITIES

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1. NNDB [link]

2. Encyclopaedia Britannica Online [link]

3. Wikipedia [link]

4. Library of Congress Name Authority [link]

5. Encyclopaedia Britannica 11th Edition

6. Chambers Biographical Dictionary, 5th Edition (p.745)

7. A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature (p.203)

8. British Authors Before 1800 (pp.282-84)

9. Benet's Readers Encyclopedia, 4th Edition (p.492)

10. Hutchinson Paperback Dictionary of Biography (p.247)

11. Concise Biographical Dictionary of Famous Men and Women (p.321)

12. Who's Who in Europe, 1450-1750 (p.151)

13. The Penguin Companion to English Literature (p.266)

14. The Hutchinson Dictionary of Ideas (p.256)

15. The World Almanac Biographical Dictionary (p.103)

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