Video or Audio. David Hume: Celebrating Connections, University of Edinburgh, 2016.

In 2016, The University of Edinburgh featured a lecture series to mark the tercentenary of its alumnus David Hume, and made the lectures available as Podcasts.

Lecture series content

The video podcast contains the following lectures:

Prof. Paul Guyer – Hume, Kant, and the Passion for Reason
Lord Sutherland – David Hume and Civil Society
Prof. Amartya Sen – David Hume and the Demands of Ethics
Celebrating Hume’s Birthday: panel discussion

The audio podcast contains the following additional content:

Prof. David Fergusson – Hume as Religious Sceptic
Dr Tillman Vierkant – The Illusion of Conscious Will: On Wegner’s use of Hume’s Associationism
Prof. Mike Ridge – Hume, The Circumstances of Justice, and Paternalism
Prof. Sheila Dow – The Relevance of Hume for Modern Economics
Dr Nicholas Phillipson – Hume: Philosophy, History and the Science of Man
Prof. Paul Guyer – Hume, Kant, and the Passion for Reason