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Postscript: Living Ideas: 3: Hume

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A five-part series in which leading philosophers offer their appreciation of great thinkers.
Professor Simon Blackburn is best known for his defence of quasi-realism, an account of the world which attempts to reconcile our experience of the world's richness with the stark ontology of modern science. In this programme, he talks about his hero, David Hume, who he thinks laid the foundations for a modern scientific philosophy. (Repeat)

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Professor Simon Blackburn
Source: Radio Times

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