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Episode #055 ... Interview on Hume with Massimo Pigliucci

Philosophize This!

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Introduction

stephen west: We've been talking about David hume, right? And i think so much of understanding what these thinkers were trying to get at back in their time is removing our own modern cultural biases from the equation. I'd like to put ourselves into the seventeenth century leather buckled shoes that david hume, no doubt, would have been in. Stephan West: Can you speak briefly on, a, what is this political, cultural, historical climate that he's existing in? and b, asDavid hume is writing his anthology of work over the course of his lifetime, what questions are facing his generation, and what questions did Davidson hume think that he was answering

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