188 Pages
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Routledge
188 Pages
by
Routledge
188 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
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
Biography
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).
