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6Hume and the Intellectual VirtuesDiscipline Filosofiche 22 (2): 153-172. 2012.For Hume virtues are character traits that are useful and agreeable to ourselves and to others. Such traits are wide-ranging, from moral virtues such as benevolence to intellectual virtues such as courage of mind and penetration. This paper focuses on Hume’s account of the latter. I argue that Hume is a virtue epistemologist, principally interested in the role that intellectual character traits play in social interactions rather than in the justifiedness of particular beliefs. I shall argue that…Read more
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68A Feminist Interpretation of Hume on TestimonyHypatia 25 (3). 2010.Hume is usually taken to have an evidentialist account of testimonial belief: one is justified in believing what someone says if one has empincal evidence that they have been reliable in the past. This account is impartialist: such evidence is required no matter who the person is, or what refotions she may have to you. I, however, argue that Hume has another account of testimony, one grounded in sympathy. This account is partialist, in that empincal evidence is not required in order for one to b…Read more
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147An Introduction to the Theory of KnowledgePolity. 2006._An Introduction to the Theory of Knowledge_ guides the reader through the key issues and debates in contemporary epistemology. Lucid, comprehensive and accessible, it is an ideal textbook for students who are new to the subject and for university undergraduates. The book is divided into five parts. Part I discusses the concept of knowledge and distinguishes between different types of knowledge. Part II surveys the sources of knowledge, considering both _a priori_ and _a posteriori_ knowledge. P…Read more
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108Testimony and liesPhilosophical Quarterly 57 (227). 2007.In certain situations, lies can be used to pass on knowledge. The kinds of cases I focus on are those involving a speaker's devious manipulation of the hearer's irrational or prejudiced thought. These cases show that sometimes a speaker's knowledge of a hearer's mind is necessary for the testimonial transmission of knowledge. They also support a 'seeding' model of knowledge transmission, rather than one that is akin to the postal delivery of complete parcels of information
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Hume and the virtuesIn Alan Bailey & Dan O'Brien (eds.), The Continuum Companion to Hume, Continuum. pp. 288--302. 2012.
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53Communication between friendsEmpedocles: European Journal for the Philosophy of Communication 1 (1): 27-41. 2009.One kind of successful communication involves the transmission of knowledge from speaker to hearer. Such testimonial knowledge transmission is usually seen as conforming to three widely held epistemological approaches: reliabilism, impartialism and evidentialism. First, a speaker must be a reliable testifier in order that she transmits knowledge, and reliability is cashed out in terms of her likelihood of speaking the truth. Second, if a certain speaker's testimony has sufficient epistemic weigh…Read more
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2Cultivating our garden : David Hume and gardening as therapyIn Fritz Allhoff & Dan O'Brien (eds.), Gardening - Philosophy for Everyone: Cultivating Wisdom, Wiley-blackwell. 2010.
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48Testimony, Engineered Knowledge and InternalismPhilosophica 78 (2). 2006.Testimonial knowledge sometimes depends on internalist epistemic conditions, those that thinkers are able to reflect upon. In the testimony literature the only internalist conditions that are considered are those concerning a hearer's knowledge of a speaker's reliability. I argue, however, that the relevant sense of internal"" should not be seen as referring to just the hearer's point of view, but rather to the points of view of both the hearer and the speaker. There are certain cases of testimo…Read more
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26Hume on Sexual AttractionIn Corrigan & Farrell (eds.), Philosophical Frontiers, Progressive Frontiers Press. 2009.
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22Pathways to Knowledge: Private and Public By Alvin I. Goldman Oxford University Press, 2002. ix + 224 pp., £25 (review)Philosophy 78 (2): 289-307. 2003.