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Alison Gopnik on Hume and Buddhism

September 14, 2013 15:50 9.63 MB Downloads: 0

Many people have noticed similarities between what David Hume wrote about the self and Buddhist teaching on this subject. In this episode of the Philosophy Bites archive Alison Gopnik discusses the possibility that there was a direct route of influence.