Uploaded February 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago
In this episode, Ben Watkins sits down with Professor Paul Russell to discuss David Hume, philosophy of religion, and Dialogues concerning Natural Religion.
Professor Russell is a leading Hume scholar and author of “The Riddle of Hume’s Treatise” which argues irreligion is central to understanding the naturalism and skepticism at the heart of Hume’s philosophy, specially, that expressed in his “A Treatise of Human Nature.” These irreligious themes culminate in Hume’s masterpiece: “Dialogues of concerning Natural Religion.”
Professor Russell walks us through different models of god, the argument for design, the argument from evil, and what has been called “Hume’s strange inversion” at the end of the Dialogues.
Paul Russell's Website:
sites.google.com/site/paulrussellubc/paul-russell
Philpapers:
philpeople.org/profiles/paul-russell
Hume’s Skepticism and the Problem of Atheism:
philarchive.org/archive/RUSHSA-4#:~:text=theist%20nor%20an%20atheist%20but,%2F%20186%E2%80%93%2087%3B%20cp.
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In this episode, Ben Watkins sits down with Professor Paul Russell to discuss David Hume, philosophy of religion, and Dialogues concerning Natural Religion.
Professor Russell is a leading Hume scholar and author of “The Riddle of Hume’s Treatise” which argues irreligion is central to understanding the naturalism and skepticism at the heart of Hume’s philosophy, specially, that expressed in his “A Treatise of Human Nature.” These irreligious themes culminate in Hume’s masterpiece: “Dialogues of concerning Natural Religion.”
Professor Russell walks us through different models of god, the argument for design, the argument from evil, and what has been called “Hume’s strange inversion” at the end of the Dialogues.
Paul Russell's Website:
sites.google.com/site/paulrussellubc/paul-russell
Philpapers:
philpeople.org/profiles/paul-russell
Hume’s Skepticism and the Problem of Atheism:
philarchive.org/archive/RUSHSA-4#:~:text=theist%20nor%20an%20atheist%20but,%2F%20186%E2%80%93%2087%3B%20cp.
📱SOCIALS📱
Be sure to follow the RA crew at the social media links below:
Website: realatheology.com
Twitter: twitter.com/RealAtheology
Facebook: facebook.com/RealAtheology
Instagram: instagram.com/realatheology
Patreon: patreon.com/RealAtheology
