The Testimony of Sense: Empiricism and the Essay from Hume to Hazlitt

by Tim Milnes

The Testimony of Sense attempts to answer a neglected but important question: what became of epistemology in the late eighteenth century, in the period between Hume's scepticism and Romantic idealism? It finds that two factors in particular reshaped the nature of 'empiricism': the socialisation of experience by Scottish Enlightenment thinkers and the impact upon philosophical discourse of the belletrism of periodical culture. The book aims to correct...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198812736
• ISBN13: 9780198812739
• Release Date: August 2019
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 290 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"