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This week's featured author pages

David Hume (1711 - 1776) -- great eighteenth-century Scottish philosopher who sought to reveal the limitations of reason, and in doing so reached famous sceptical conclusions

Melchior Cano (1509 - 1560) -- Spanish theologian

Melville Davisson Post (1869 - 1930) -- writer of detective stories

Lousia May Alcott (1832 - 1888) -- well known American author of children's books

Anaxagoras (500 - 428) -- influential pre-Socratic philosopher