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News: March/April 2011

Hume’s birthday parties • P4C pioneer Matthew Lipman dies • Philosophy Now launches Kindle edition — News reports by Sue Roberts

Hume celebrations

The 300th anniversary of the birth of David Hume on 26th April is to be marked by Edinburgh University with a year-long programme of special events. Hume studied at the university from the unusually young age of twelve, starting in 1723. The programme of lectures, exhibitions and activities is being hosted by the university’s Institute for the Advanced Studies in the Humanities, which also proposes to establish an annual David Hume Fellowship at Edinburgh University with the aim of making the university a centre for Hume studies. Ironically, Hume once applied to be Professor of Moral Philosophy at the university, but was rejected after the city’s ministers complained that he was an atheist. (He was later refused a similar post at Glasgow University for the same reason.

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