The Philosophy of David Hume

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.

[Bewareofthewolves]

I always enjoy listening to James Anderson and wish it could have gone on for longer. Thank you.

[StevenLascombe]

James Anderson has this faculty to make philosophical concepts accessible to non-philosophiles like I am.

[ParkersSwamp]

Love it! Great book, great interview.

[ninjacell]

Ah good James Anderson is a lovely chap.

And did I hear mention of a Christopher Watkin episode?

[Gisbertus_Voetius]

I'm currently reading through it. It is a good read indeed.

[knotlock]

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

[BarryClarkl]

Hume is nearly as dangerous as Kant for anything Orthodox and Christian