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Saul Traiger

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Experience And Testimony In Hume's Philosophy, Saul Traiger Feb 2010

Experience And Testimony In Hume's Philosophy, Saul Traiger

Saul Traiger

The standard interpretation of Hume on testimony takes him to be a reductionist; justification of beliefs from testimony ultimately depends on one's own first-person experience. Yet Hume's main discussions of testimony in the Treatise and first Enquiry suggest a social account. Hume appeals to shared experience and develops norms of belief from testimony that are not reductionist. It is argued that the reductionist interpretation rests on an overly narrow view of Hume's theory of ideas. By attending to such mechanisms of the imagination as abstraction and fictions, it is shown that Hume's theory of ideas does not forestall a non-reductionist …


Reason Unhinged: Passion And Precipice From Montaigne To Hume, Saul Traiger Jan 2005

Reason Unhinged: Passion And Precipice From Montaigne To Hume, Saul Traiger

Saul Traiger

No abstract provided.


Review Of John Pollock And Joseph Cruz, Contemporary Theories Of Knowledge, Saul Traiger Jan 2004

Review Of John Pollock And Joseph Cruz, Contemporary Theories Of Knowledge, Saul Traiger

Saul Traiger

No abstract provided.


Making The Right Identification In The Turing Test, Saul Traiger Jan 2000

Making The Right Identification In The Turing Test, Saul Traiger

Saul Traiger

The test Turing proposed for machine intelligence is usually understood to be a test of whether a computer can fool a human into thinking that the computer is a human. This standard interpretation is rejected in favor of a test based on the Imitation Game introduced by Turing at the beginning of "Computing Machinery and Intelligence."


The Apa Internet Bulletin Board And Website, Saul Traiger Jan 1998

The Apa Internet Bulletin Board And Website, Saul Traiger

Saul Traiger

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The Ownership Of Perceptions: A Study Of Hume's Metaphysics, V, 1; (1988) Pp. 41-52, Saul Traiger Jan 1988

The Ownership Of Perceptions: A Study Of Hume's Metaphysics, V, 1; (1988) Pp. 41-52, Saul Traiger

Saul Traiger

No abstract provided.