Gresham College Lecture - Keith Ward - The Empiricist Turn (2 of 6)

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• The Empiricist Turn, Part 2 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?

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• 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

[PrimeParadox]

Erm... because its not empricially based in evidence? That's why.