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Experience And Testimony In Hume's Philosophy, Saul Traiger
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
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
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
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
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
The Ownership Of Perceptions: A Study Of Hume's Metaphysics, V, 1; (1988) Pp. 41-52, Saul Traiger
Saul Traiger
No abstract provided.