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I'm Helen Beebe.
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 favourite philosopher, even if they don't really agree with what he says.
Yeah.
I'm Professor Luke Bovens at London School of Economics and Political Science.
I'm head of department in the department of philosophy, logic and scientific methods.
I very much enjoy reading Aristotle, actually.