Defining a Woman - It's All Hume's Fault
Channel: Professor McCoige
Date: 2022-03-28

In this video we discuss what is (for some reason) perhaps the most contentious question of our time: "What is a woman?" Then I propose why this question seems so difficult so suddenly. (It's all David Hume's fault for eliminating Formal and Final causes from our metaphysics.) 

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