Jamie Edwards
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first heard Jun 2011
last heard Apr 2012
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So, Peter, Hume is famous, infamous perhaps, for a number of his philosophical positions.
Chief among these, perhaps, is his thoughts on induction.
Inductive reasoning, of course, is reasoning from things that we've observed to things that we have yet to observe.
So every polar bear I've ever seen in my life is white.
I presume that the next polar bear I see will be white.
This sort of reasoning is...
crucial to our everyday going about in the world.
It's the basis of most scientific reasoning.
What were Hume's thoughts on induction?
So another problem that Hume raises related to reason is his belief-desire model of motivation.
There's a famous tradition of people who, when we inquire why we did something, we look to the reasons we had for doing it.
And it seems that we're capable of acting just in light of those reasons.
Hume is alleged to have introduced a problem to this.
He believes that reason alone is insufficient to motivate action.
And what is also required is something like a desire.
And it's this combination together that explains why we act.
Can you say something about this
Being motivated by pleasure and the avoidance of pain seems very intuitive to some extent.
What does Hume say of cases where we are motivated to do things where the pleasure or the avoidance of pain is not so obvious, from burdensome chores to the person who gives up their life to aid somebody in need?
Elucidations · Episode 28: John Searle discusses human reality and basic reality · 18 Oct 2011
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Professor Searle, you completed your graduate work at Oxford in the late fifties at quite an extraordinary time for Oxford philosophy.
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