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Examples Of Skepticism By David Hume

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Hume was a Scottish philosopher born in 1711 in Edinburgh, Scotland. Hume is famous for continuing the tradition of empiricism, started by Locke and followed by Berkeley, which sees knowledge as coming originally from sense experience. Hume differs from these philosophers, however, in that he remains skeptical about what causes our perceptions of things. While Locke assumes there is a material substance which causes our perceptions, and Berekeley presents the radical thesis that the cause of our perceptions originates in the Mind of God, Hume refuses to make either assumption. His skepticism leads him to question there really are “causes” and “effects,” or if our concept of causality is merely the result of the mind’s practical nature? Hume
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