David Hume on God

About David PurdiePeter Fosl

DAVID W PURDIE was born privately in Prestwick and educated publicly at Ayr Academy and Glasgow University. He is a Professor Emeritus of Hull University and is presently an Hon. Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities of the University of Edinburgh where his field is the history and philosophy of the 18th century. David is Editor-in-Chief of The Burns Encyclopaedia which covers the life and work of the poet Robert Burns and editor of Sir Walter Scotts Ivanhoe and The Heart of Midlothian both adapted for the modern reader. He is a former Chairman of the Sir Walter Scott Club. In non-academic mode he is the co-author of The Ancyent & Healthfulle Exercyse a history of golf and of The Deans Diaries an exposé of the goings-on at the (fictional) St Andrews College in Edinburgh. Peter S Fosl is Professor of Philosophy at Transylvania University in Lexington Kentucky where he chairs the PPE program. Fosl is co-editor of the Dictionary of Literary Biography volumes on the history of British Philosophy co-author with Julian Baggini of The Philosophers Toolkit and Ethics Toolkit and he is author of Humes Scepticism: Pyrrhonian and Academic (forthcoming with Edinburgh University Press). Fosl has published numerous articles on the history of philosophy and on popular culture. He was a Fulbright student in Edinburgh and the David Hume Fellow of the University of Edinburghs Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH) during the 20134 academic year.