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Hume on Testimony (Hardcover)
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Hume on Testimony (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Philosophy
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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 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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