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Hume on Testimony: Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Philosophy

Autor Dan O'Brien
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 26 aug 2024
This book is the first devoted to Hume’s conception of testimony. Hume is usually taken to be a reductionist with respect to testimony, with trust in others dependent on the evidence possessed by individuals concerning the reliability of texts or speakers. This account is taken from Hume’s essay on miracles in An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding. O’Brien, though, looks wider than the miracles essay, turning to what Hume says about testimony in the Treatise, the moral Enquiry, the History of England and his Essays. There are social aspects of testimonial exchanges that cannot be explained purely in terms of the assessment of the reliability of testifiers. Hume’s conception of testimony is integrated with his account of how history informs our knowledge of human nature, the relation between sympathy and belief and between pride and the conception we have of our selves, the role played by social factors in the judgment of intellectual virtue, and the importance Hume places on epistemic responsibility and the moral and personal dimensions of testimonial trust. It is not possible to focus on testimony without allowing other aspects of our nature into the frame and therefore turning also to consider sympathy, wisdom, history, morality, virtue, aesthetic judgment, the self, and character. O’Brien argues that Hume’s reliance on the social goes deep and that he should therefore be seen as an anti-reductionist with respect to testimony. Hume on Testimony will be of interest to researchers and advanced students working on Hume and on early modern and contemporary approaches to the epistemology of testimony.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781032357041
ISBN-10: 1032357045
Pagini: 188
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 mm
Greutate: 0.35 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Philosophy

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Public țintă

Academic, Postgraduate, and Undergraduate

Cuprins

Introduction  1. Hume on Miracles  2. Naturalism, Scepticism and Reductionism  3. Anti-Reductionism  4. Sympathy, Belief and Testimony  5. Testimony and Virtue  6. Hume’s Social Epistemology

Notă biografică

Dan O’Brien is a Reader in Philosophy and Subject Co-ordinator for Philosophy at Oxford Brookes University. He is the founder and convenor of the Oxford Hume Forum and book reviews editor for Hume Studies. He is co-author of the Reader’s Guide to Hume’s Enquiry concerning Human Understanding (2007) and Hume’s Critique of Religion (2013) and co-editor of the Bloomsbury Companion to Hume (2015).

Descriere

This book is the first devoted to Hume’s conception of testimony. O’Brien looks wider than the miracles essay, turning to what Hume says about testimony in the Treatise, the moral Enquiry, the History of England and his Essays.