To celebrate David Hume's 300th Birthday we are releasing this bonus episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast. On the standard reading of Hume's Treatise, this important book reveals its author both as a sceptic and as someone wanting to contribute positive ideas about human nature. These two aspects of the book seem to be in tension. Paul Russell suggests a way of solving the riddle of the Treatise. He emphasizes David Hume's irreligion and how it pervades every aspect of Hume's first book.
Listen to Paul Russell on David Hume's Philosophy of Irreligion
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Previous Philosophy Bites interviews on David Hume:
Listen to Peter Millican on Hume's Significance
Listen to Stewart Sutherland on Hume on Design
A range of Open University podcasts on David Hume (with transcripts) is available here
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