English Philosophers Of The Seventeenth And Eighteenth Centuries

JOHN LOCKE has been fascinated by the pulp magazine era and its fiction, particularly in the 1920s and 1930s, for many decades. In the 1990s he started collecting information on the era, which led to writing historical treatments about the publishers, editors, and most of all the authors. Many of his findings have been published in his Off-Trail Publications books. Charles Beadle featured in two collections of Africa adventure fiction (The City of Baal, 2007; The Land of Ophir, 2012). In 2018, Locke jumped up to book-length histories with The Thing's Incredible! The Secret Origins of Weird Tales. He's currently completing a book about writers behaving badly in the 1920s.

David Hume was an eighteenth-century Scottish philosopher, historian, and essayist, and the author of A Treatise of Human Nature, considered by many to be one of the most important philosophical works ever published.

Hume attended the University of Edinburgh at an early age and considered a career in law before deciding that the pursuit of knowledge was his true calling. Hume’s writings on rationalism and empiricism, free will, determinism, and the existence of God would be enormously influential on contemporaries such as Adam Smith, as well as the philosophers like Schopenhauer, John Stuart Mill, and Karl Popper, who succeeded him. Hume died in 1776.