David Hume: Sceptic and Naturalist – A Saturday School with Jane O’Grady

Date/Time

20/06/2026 (Saturday)

2.00 - 5.00 pm

Location
The Adelaide





David Hume, the great Scottish philosopher of the Enlightenment, famously argued that we have no grounds for believing in the external world or the self, or in the necessary connection between cause and effect. Yet he was also argued that we humans are caused to think, believe and feel as we do by ‘the current of nature’. Can his scepticism be reconciled with his naturalism, or not?

 

(Please note that this event was previously advertised as occurring on 6th June. It has now moved to 20th June)