K Wertz
Biographic Data
| ID | 1673708 |
|---|---|
| NAME | K Wertz |
| GIVEN NAMES | K |
| FAMILY NAME | Wertz |
| SIGNATURE | WERTZ K |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 2 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Hume and the Historiography of Science
The period in which the people of Christendom were the lowest sunk in ignorance, and consequently in disorders of every kind, may justly be fixed at the eleventh century, about the age of William the Conqueror; and from that era, the sun of science beginning to reascend, threw out many gleams of light, which preceded the full morning when letters were revived in the fifteenth century. (David Hume, History of England, II, 508) In this essay I shal…
Hume, History, and Human Nature
I. David Hume has been frequently accused by his critics of having grossly misunderstood the nature of historical judgment, and consequently, of failing to grasp the elements constituting the historical enterprise. General consensus has it that his idea of history is inadequate for a reason not unique to Hume but shared by all eighteenthcentury historians and perhaps the most predominant (if not the most remembered) characteristic of eighteenth-c…
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Hume, History, and Human Nature
I. David Hume has been frequently accused by his critics of having grossly misunderstood the nature of historical judgment, and consequently, of failing to grasp the elements constituting the historical enterprise. General consensus has it that his idea of history is inadequate for a reason not unique to Hume but shared by all eighteenthcentury historians and perhaps the most predominant (if not the most remembered) characteristic of eighteenth-c…
Hume and the Historiography of Science
The period in which the people of Christendom were the lowest sunk in ignorance, and consequently in disorders of every kind, may justly be fixed at the eleventh century, about the age of William the Conqueror; and from that era, the sun of science beginning to reascend, threw out many gleams of light, which preceded the full morning when letters were revived in the fifteenth century. (David Hume, History of England, II, 508) In this essay I shal…
Epistemology (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Archaeology (1 works) · Art (1 works) · Borges, Kipling, and Jewish Identity (1 works) · Evolution and Science Education (1 works) · Historiography (1 works) · History (1 works) · Literature (1 works)