The Philosophy of David Hume
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- Dr. James N. Anderson speaks about the philosophy of David Hume, one of the foremost thinkers of the Western tradition. Hume is well known for his influential system of philosophical empiricism, skepticism, and naturalism. Throughout his work, Hume developed a naturalistic science of man that examined the psychological basis of human nature.
Dr. Anderson is the Carl W. McMurray Professor of Theology and Philosophy and Academic Dean (Global and New York) of Reformed Theological Seminary. He is the author of David Hume (Great Thinkers) published by P&R Publishing.
This is Christ the Center episode 649 (www.reformedforum.org/ctc649)
I always enjoy listening to James Anderson and wish it could have gone on for longer. Thank you.
James Anderson has this faculty to make philosophical concepts accessible to non-philosophiles like I am.
Love it! Great book, great interview.
I'm currently reading through it. It is a good read indeed.
Ah good James Anderson is a lovely chap.
And did I hear mention of a Christopher Watkin episode?
He wrote the volume on Derrida. Personally, I was hoping that he had said Christopher "Walken" but you're probably correct. ;)
@@Christian-vq8rd Yes, I have heard Christopher Watkin before on another Reformed Forum podcast speaking about Derrida. I think I have the Derrida book somewhere actually haha.
I think they were talking about his Foucault book here, which I didn't know he was writing, though I did know he does some work on Foucault.
Thank you very much.
Presupposition = Bias
I’m an unbeliever and nothing about my position on your preferred mythology has anything to do with ‘suppression of natural revelation.’
I understand you feel like you must rationalize it in these terms to keep the cognitive dissonance at bay… but Hume‘s entire point is that you can’t point to anything ‘natural’ about ‘revelation.’
Revelation is necessarily first person, to all else it is hearsay.
I suppose some people are born with a natural predisposition to not finding your cult as attractive as you do.
Presuppositionalism is dishonest because it is starting with the belief that you feel good about, so that you are primed to interpret bad evidence… so that you can feel good about a belief you can’t show to be true.
Pre-believing a super creator of everything (that we can’t honestly know anything about,) is not a natural default position.
The default position worth presupposing are the laws of logic.
- Christ Dissenter
You are an unbeliever in what? You seem to have a stronger faith in the cult of scientism than even hardcore empiricist David Hume displayed.
He was honest enough to admit he uses empiricism as a practical way of living, so long as he did not take it to its logical conclusions which lead inexorably to utter scepticism and well, that is why the guy drank and played pool. Philosophic naturalism cannot justify itself when taken to its conclusions. It cannot justify it in a rational way, why it should work from naturalistic presuppositions.
We all take our worldview to the world, (bias?) like it or not. You do too. Now, rationally justify it. Hume couldn't and admits it freely. That is why he took up history and stopped philosophy? Did you read the book written by the author in this video on Hume?
@@billhesford6098
I don’t believe God(s) exist.
Faith = Gullibility. I use Reason instead.
Drinking with friends has nothing to do with being a skeptic.
You are parroting these morons who were expressing the existential crisis they would have if they left the cult of false certainty that is Christianity.
Hume was a Skeptical Stoic. It’s not that hard.
I’m a methodological naturalist and a metaphysical naturalist.
What can’t I justify?
You’ll have to be more specific.
I don’t presuppose anything.
I just reason from first principles.
Appealing to magic dad doesn’t explain the nature of anything by the way.
I’ve read four biographies of David Hume and *this* one is most notable for having been written from the perspective of someone in a mad magic death cult.
I recommend you do some further reading on the subject and verify what this propaganda opportunist is selling.
It makes me sad this man was paid to lie about David Hume in this way.
Have you read *any other* book on Hune?
Hume is nearly as dangerous as Kant for anything Orthodox and Christian
Bahahahahaha…there were people criticizing his view on miracles immediately after it was written. And secular types idolize him as if it were the truth. Dangerous? Haha….you people crack me up…
@@michaelbrickley2443 Are you a cocky believer?