Peter Hutton
Biographic Data
| ID | 6575408 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Hutton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Hutton |
| SIGNATURE | HUTTON P |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Assisted Dying, David Hume and the Principle of Utility
Assisting a person with the intent of hastening death is an emotive and highly contentious issue. Currently, such an action in not legally permissible in Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland or England. In Scotland there is a now a proposal to change the law, through the Assisted Dying for Terminally Ill Adults (Scotland) Bill (2024) . For those with religious commitments, their attitude to an assisted death is determined by the exegesis of their fa…
David Hume – An Apologia
In September 2020, ‘The David Hume Tower’ in Edinburgh was renamed ‘40 George Square’ because Edinburgh University had concluded that the philosopher, historian and essayist, David Hume, was guilty of holding racist views. There were also public allegations of his support for slavery. The supposed evidence comes from a letter he wrote to Lord Hertford in March 1766; an assumed loan to a slave plantation investor; a letter he received in June 1766…
Creatures of the night
David Hume – An Apologia
In September 2020, ‘The David Hume Tower’ in Edinburgh was renamed ‘40 George Square’ because Edinburgh University had concluded that the philosopher, historian and essayist, David Hume, was guilty of holding racist views. There were also public allegations of his support for slavery. The supposed evidence comes from a letter he wrote to Lord Hertford in March 1766; an assumed loan to a slave plantation investor; a letter he received in June 1766…
Creatures of the night
David Hume – An Apologia
In September 2020, ‘The David Hume Tower’ in Edinburgh was renamed ‘40 George Square’ because Edinburgh University had concluded that the philosopher, historian and essayist, David Hume, was guilty of holding racist views. There were also public allegations of his support for slavery. The supposed evidence comes from a letter he wrote to Lord Hertford in March 1766; an assumed loan to a slave plantation investor; a letter he received in June 1766…
Assisted Dying, David Hume and the Principle of Utility
Assisting a person with the intent of hastening death is an emotive and highly contentious issue. Currently, such an action in not legally permissible in Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland or England. In Scotland there is a now a proposal to change the law, through the Assisted Dying for Terminally Ill Adults (Scotland) Bill (2024) . For those with religious commitments, their attitude to an assisted death is determined by the exegesis of their fa…
History (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Anarchism and Radical Politics (1 works) · Archaeology (1 works) · Art (1 works) · Art history (1 works) · Character (mathematics (1 works) · Citation (1 works) · Classics (1 works)