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Ep. 17: Hume’s Empiricism

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Episode for Purchase: On David Hume’s An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (1748). Hume thinks that all we can know are our own impressions, but that no experience shows us one event causing another event. So, causality must just be regular patterns of conjoined events.

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The first installment in our initial run of epistemology episodes.

What can we know? We read David Hume's An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (1748) to discuss his theory of knowledge that all we can know are our own impressions, and his consequent view of causality as merely a pattern of conjoined events, not really a power within things.

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Running Time: 2 hrs, 5 min. Recorded: March 17, 2010. Participants: Mark, Wes, Seth.

As a bonus, your purchase includes a high-bitrate mp3 of the song that concludes the episode, "Twitch" by Mark's college band, The MayTricks.

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