What was David Hume like as a person?

As far as I can recall, he loves apple pie (according to a video I watched over youtube probably), during his early life he lived in a farm field and was bookish, he wrote A Treatise of Human Nature during his twenties alone on a crop field. read more

David Hume was the second of two sons born to Joseph Home of Ninewells, an advocate, and his wife The Hon. Katherine (née Falconer), daughter of Sir David Falconer. He was born on 26 April 1711 in a tenement on the north side of the Lawnmarket in Edinburgh. read more

He was social-able and was a beloved person that people like to have him around (unlike say Hegel, a German philisopher who was known for his hard-going character). He never married as far as I remembered. read more

In his “Of Personal Identity,” 1 David Hume criticizes the idea of personal identity. “The identity which we ascribe to the mind of man is only a fictitious one” (168). In this paper, I argue for an interpretation of the passage in Hume’s Treatise where he talks about the fiction called personal identity. read more