ABSTRACT
A ‘great philosopher’ is someone who has produced, through skill and effort, extraordinary achievements in investigating the answers to fundamental questions. Such achievement may be of many different kinds, and at many levels of generality. For example, they may be original concepts or clarifications of concepts, original questions or problems, original theses or principles, original arguments, original methodological approaches, or original frameworks for an entire field of philosophy (such as ethics or epistemology). I discuss some of Hume’s achievements of each of these kinds, in defense of the claim that he is a great philosopher.
