Gresham College Lecture - Keith Ward - The Empiricist Turn (1 of 6)

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• The Empiricist Turn, Part 1 of 6 •
Date/Time: 14/02/2008
Speaker: Professor Keith Ward.

Professor Ward has a BA from the University of Wales, an MA from the University of Cambridge, an MA and B Litt from the University of Oxford, a DD from Cambridge and a DD from Oxford.

This lecture is about Hume and the grounding of knowledge in human experience, the conflict of reason and common sense. The lecturer raises a thought-provoking question: Hume was wrong about science - was he wrong about religion too?

For more information, other lectures, transcripts, downloadable audio and video. Please visit the Gresham College website for this lecture:
http://www.gresham.ac.uk/event.asp?PageId=4&EventId=677

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Education

Tags:

• David Hume
• religion
• empiricism
• other minds
• external world
• common sense
• knowledge
• epistemology
• scepticism
• God
• theism
• atheism
• necessity
• contingency
• creation
• philosophy
• theology
• realism
• anti realism
• Gresham College

[atTakwir]

Thank you for up!

This is a really terrific and (philosophically) stimulating lecture. Keith Ward is great!

[ivlfounder]

@mechanicmike69

Good monkey keep dancing.

[mechanicmike69]

@ivlfounder look the troll had something to say, but still no proof of his delusion, no proof of his god, no proof that he knows what this god wants, or will do, or has done, nothing.....

You are just a delusional fucking moron.

[mechanicmike69]

@mehldau125 Since the telescope and microscope have proven them to be noting more than myths, superstitions and absurdities. Where were you during history and science classes?

[mehldau125]

@mechanicmike69 Since when is anything wrong with ancient texts? Thats like saying I don't like dinosaur bones, because they're old

[ivlfounder]

@seantaylor1334

You'll have to forgive mikey.

He's a spammer with no life who craves an intelectual beating from theists.

[mechanicmike69]

@seantaylor1334 Religion more into intelligence? Religion concerned with the truth? How can any religion based on ancient texts be concerned with truth, they have to bend the truth to make reality fit their ancient texts. Religion without it's ancient texts has no foundation, and in reality that is precisely what is wrong with it, it has no real foundation in Truth. Stories of invisible beings and their offspring are make believe.

[seantaylor1334]

@mechanicmike69 I think that religion now is more into intelligence; however, I think that religious belief has always been concerned with truth.

[mechanicmike69]

@ivlfounder Atheism isn't a religion, it's the truth. Religion has always had a problem with the truth and intelligence. It's a historical fact.

[ivlfounder]

@bertiesrussell

indeed the sillyness among atheists is only growing and getting less funny.