Social Intercourse and Social Epistemology from Thomas Reid's Point of View
| dc.contributor.author | Crosby, Alastair | |
| dc.contributor.supervisor | Rysiew, Patrick William | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2015-09-02T20:04:31Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2015-09-02T20:04:31Z | |
| dc.date.copyright | 2015 | en_US |
| dc.date.issued | 2015-09-02 | |
| dc.degree.department | Department of Philosophy | en_US |
| dc.degree.level | Master of Arts M.A. | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | The first aim is to present the correct interpretation of Thomas Reid’s (1710-96) social epistemology. The second is to use Reid’s insights on these matters to help make some progress on a related contemporary philosophical problem. In the first chapter, I present and argue for an original interpretation of Reid’s account of the social operations. In the second, I do the same with respect to Reid’s account of testimony (a particular species of social operation) and its epistemology. In the third, I discuss a contemporary debate between epistemic individualists and epistemic socialists. I point out that the theorists engaged in that debate assume that epistemic individualism and epistemic socialism are inconsistent positions. I then consider the debate from Reid’s perspective, and, in doing so, show how the two positions might be reconciled. | en_US |
| dc.description.proquestemail | a.l.v.crosby@gmail.com | en_US |
| dc.description.scholarlevel | Graduate | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1828/6660 | |
| dc.language | English | eng |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.rights | Available to the World Wide Web | en_US |
| dc.subject | Philosophy | en_US |
| dc.subject | Reid | en_US |
| dc.subject | Social Epistemology | en_US |
| dc.title | Social Intercourse and Social Epistemology from Thomas Reid's Point of View | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |