In 1891 in Springfield, Massachusetts at a YMCA school a young physical education teacher named James Naismith found himself frustrated during the winter months because there was no game to play with his students indoors. He spent a lot of time speculating about how to overcome this deficiency but all he could come up with…

David Hume is famous for his skeptical critique of any and all claims to our having knowledge of the world because he claimed that we can have no real knowledge of the world outside of our own minds since all our “knowledge” might simply be the creation of the mind itself. How can we know…