Episode 167: Hume on Intelligent Design (Part Two)

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

• Episode: Episode 167: Hume on Intelligent Design (Part Two)
• Website: The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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• Duration: 01:06:26
• Published: 2017-07-10 14:47

Continuing on David Hume’s Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion (1779), with guest Stephen West. We get further into what’s wrong with the design argument and why Hume thinks that it’s merely a verbal dispute whether we want to say that God designed the orderly universe or just say that the universe is orderly. Also, the problem of evil!

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End song: “Shittalkers” by Ken Stringfellow, as interviewed on Nakedly Examined Music ep. 39.