Hume specialist Peter Millican is the interviewee for the latest episode of Philosophy Bites on the topic of David Hume's Significance. In the course of the interview Peter explains why he believes that Hume died an atheist...
Listen to Peter Millcan on Hume's Significance
For textual evidence of Hume's Atheism, see this post (added April 27th)
Peter Millican has also provided a very detailed linked bibliography on David Hume:
Peter Millican's Bibliography on Hume
I'm not so sure. For it's perfectly possible to read the Dialogues, see Philo as closest to Hume, since Philo is the sceptic, and then see that Philo admits that the reasons for and against the existence of God ultimately hang in the balance: ‘[I] believe that the arguments on which it is established exceed the objections which lie against it,’ he concludes. This would suggest that Hume is certainly against organized religion but is an agnostic when it comes to the particular question of God.
Posted by: Mark Vernon | April 16, 2008 at 01:38 PM
By far my favorite interview yet!
Thanks for posting these wonderful interviews.
Posted by: Berto | April 18, 2008 at 02:09 AM