2013 

Simon Blackburn

University of Cambridge

Is Science All We Need To Understand Human Nature?

Simon Blackburn's intellectual reach is far as it is wide: from Plato's republic to the vice of lust, via David Hume. Now this esteemed philosopher and public intellectual has turned his gaze to human nature. As science claims more territory as its own, what ground is left for the humanities to sow its seeds of explanation? In this fitting, final conversation for series one, Simon Blackburn unfolds some ideas ahead of his presentation for the inaugural Alan Saunders Memorial Lecture.