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  title info:
    title: Hume on testimony
  name:
    name part: O'Brien, Dan
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2023
    copyright date: 2023
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xii, 176 pages ; 24 cm.
  abstract: 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.
  table of contents: Hume on miracles -- Naturalism, scepticism, and reductionism -- Anti-reductionism -- Sympathy, belief, and testimony -- Testimony and virtue -- Hume's social epistemology.
  note: Dan O'Brien.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [158]-171) and index.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Hume, David
      name part: 1711-1776
  subject:
    topic: Testimony (Theory of knowledge)
  classification: B1499.K7 O27 2023
  classification: 121.3
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Routledge studies in eighteenth century philosophy
  identifier: 0367217937
  identifier: 9780367217938
  identifier: 9780429266133 (ebook)
  identifier: 9780429556630 (PDF ebook)
  identifier: 9780429561108 (ePub ebook)
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    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 220505
    record change date: 20250816185338.1
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