Hume on Testimony

ISBN-13: 9780367217938 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 192 str.

Dan O'Brien

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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).