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The building, which will be used as a student study space in the current academic year, will now be known as 40 George Square. An online petition claiming David Hume "wrote racist epithets" was set up...
09.12.2020 dailymail.co.uk , yahoo.com , irishexaminer.com and 106 sites
In what they describe as a "strong objection" to the controversial move to rename the building as 40 George Square in light of racist views held by the 18th century philosopher, the group of academics...
09.16.2020 Heraldscotland.com and 2 sites
It is clear that Boris Johnson and his followers do not like the Northern Irish Protocol. But we hear nothing about what they would like to happen in Northern Ireland . They appear to believe it is po...
09.14.2020 msn.com , yahoo.com
Colleges and universities are working extra hard to disgrace themselves this week, and four efforts in particular stand out. • What''s this? Another white woman claiming to be black? Inside Higher Ed ...
09.14.2020 Thenewscommenter.com and 1 sites
Scotland''s leading historian has strongly criticised a "stupid" decision to rename a building dedicated to the philosopher David Hume because his 262-year-old writings on race could cause "distress". Professor Sir Tom Devine said Peter Mathieson, the current vice-chancellor of the University of Edinburgh, should "hang his head in absolute shame" over the move to rechristen the David Hume Tower as 40 George Square. The academic, widely acknowledged as Scotland''s greatest living historian, said ...
09.14.2020 yahoo.com , telegraph.co.uk
University of Edinburgh has renamed its David Hume Tower over the philosopher''s "comments on matters of race". " >The University of Edinburgh has renamed its David Hume Tower over the philosopher''s ...
09.13.2020 Yahoo.com
Hume was one of the most important figures in the Scottish Enlightenment. An empiricist and student of human nature, he was a skeptic of organized religion, and his rejection of Christian miracles and...
09.13.2020 Rt.com
Historians and politicians have accused Edinburgh University of "spinless" surrender to demands to remove philosopher David Hume''s name from a campus building. The university''s Equality & Diversity ...
09.14.2020 Sputniknews.com
In 1778, an African man known to history as Joseph Knight won his freedom in Scotland after a tortuous, four-year series of legal cases. Knight v. Wedderburn was finally resolved in Scotland''s highes...
09.17.2020 Abc.net.au
In its 175-year history, Scientific American had never felt the need to take a political stand. In 2020, for the first time, the popular science magazine has endorsed Joe Biden for the US presidency. But 2020 is the year of the pandemic, where ignori...
09.16.2020 Indianexpress.com
