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are each asked the same simple question.

I'm Helen Bee, I'm a professor of philosophy at the University of Birmingham.

Who's your favorite philosopher?

My favorite philosopher is David Hume.

Just as an intellectual achievement, some of his writings, particularly the treatise,

are just phenomenal and incredibly ahead of their time.

He asked questions that other philosophers had not thought to ask he

challenged the orthodoxy when it came to religion and causation and all those sorts of

things I think I believe some of the things that Hume believed, but I think that's

a sort of a side issue. I think a lot of philosophers have Hume as their favorite philosopher

even if they don't really agree with what he says.

Yeah, I'm Professor Le Bovins at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

I'm head of department in the Department of Philosophy,

Logic and Scientific methods.

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