Henry Home, Lord Kames belongs to the philosophical record as a figure whose arguments outlasted the disputes that prompted them.
The record lists Henry Home, Lord Kames as Scottish philosopher, judge and agricultural improver (1696–1782).
Henry Home, Lord Kames was born at Berwickshire in 1696. His recorded nationality is United Kingdom. He studied at University of Edinburgh.
This was the century in which philosophy separated itself from theology and began to ask what could be known with certainty.
Philosophy advances by objection: an argument matters if serious people spend years attacking it.
That the work was done from United Kingdom matters: philosophical traditions, institutions and the language of publication have never been evenly distributed.
Henry Home, Lord Kames died in 1782, aged 86. The arguments remain in print, which is the form in which philosophy survives.
