Dan O'Brien
Biographic Data
| ID | 4530826 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dan O'Brien |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dan |
| FAMILY NAME | O'Brien |
| SIGNATURE | BRIEN D O |
| AFFILIATIONS | School of Education, Humanities & Languages Oxford Brookes University Oxford UK |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Sympathy in Hume's social epistemology
According to the reductionist interpretation of Hume on testimony, we come to believe what others tell us for the same kind of reason as we come to believe that the sun will rise tomorrow—both beliefs grounded in our experience of the respective regularities of testifiers and planetary motion. Hume's epistemology is explained in terms of one master mechanism—that is, causal or probabilistic inference, as this plays the role of an all‐purpose reli…
Gardening ‐ Philosophy for Everyone: Cultivating Wisdom
Gardening - Philosophy for Everyone: Cultivating Wisdom
A Feminist Interpretation of Hume on Testimony
Hume is usually taken to have an evidentialist account of testimonial belief: one is justified in believing what someone says if one has empirical 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 relations 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 empi…
Testimony and Lies
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 comp…
The Monze Rain Festival: The History of Change in a Religious Cult in Zambia
Malgre l'apparente heterogeneite ethnique, politique et religieuse observee depuis quelques annees dans la region de langue Tonga (Zambie), les populations partagent une croyance religieuse etroitement reliee au role d'un chef politique et religieux, Monze, qui a le pouvoir de faire la pluie. L'evolution du pouvoir politique et religieux de Monze a commence dans la periode charniere entre les XIX e et XX e siecles. L'entite du pouvoir de Monze, p…
Chiefs of rain - chiefs of ruling: A reinterpretation of pre-colonial Tonga (Zambia) social and political structure
IntroductionThis article reassesses the accepted model of pre-colonial Tonga (Zambian) society. In a series of books and articles Elizabeth Colson has established an anthropological framework in which to analyse Tonga social and political activities. The basic parameters of that framework would appear to be: 'Until the beginnings of the colonial period, approximately seventy years ago the largest named territorial unit among the Tonga was the sma…
Party, Polity and Bureaucracy: The Zambian Education Debate, 1974–77
Journal Article PARTY, POLITY AND BUREAUCRACY: THE ZAMBIAN EDUCATION DEBATE, 1974–77 Get access DAN O'BRIEN DAN O'BRIEN Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 81, Issue 323, April 1982, Pages 207–230, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a097409 Published: 01 April 1982
Chiefs of rain - chiefs of ruling: A reinterpretation of pre-colonial Tonga (Zambia) social and political structure
IntroductionThis article reassesses the accepted model of pre-colonial Tonga (Zambian) society. In a series of books and articles Elizabeth Colson has established an anthropological framework in which to analyse Tonga social and political activities. The basic parameters of that framework would appear to be: 'Until the beginnings of the colonial period, approximately seventy years ago the largest named territorial unit among the Tonga was the sma…
Testimony and Lies
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 comp…
Party, Polity and Bureaucracy: The Zambian Education Debate, 1974–77
Journal Article PARTY, POLITY AND BUREAUCRACY: THE ZAMBIAN EDUCATION DEBATE, 1974–77 Get access DAN O'BRIEN DAN O'BRIEN Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 81, Issue 323, April 1982, Pages 207–230, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a097409 Published: 01 April 1982
Chiefs of rain - chiefs of ruling: A reinterpretation of pre-colonial Tonga (Zambia) social and political structure
IntroductionThis article reassesses the accepted model of pre-colonial Tonga (Zambian) society. In a series of books and articles Elizabeth Colson has established an anthropological framework in which to analyse Tonga social and political activities. The basic parameters of that framework would appear to be: 'Until the beginnings of the colonial period, approximately seventy years ago the largest named territorial unit among the Tonga was the sma…
The Monze Rain Festival: The History of Change in a Religious Cult in Zambia
Malgre l'apparente heterogeneite ethnique, politique et religieuse observee depuis quelques annees dans la region de langue Tonga (Zambie), les populations partagent une croyance religieuse etroitement reliee au role d'un chef politique et religieux, Monze, qui a le pouvoir de faire la pluie. L'evolution du pouvoir politique et religieux de Monze a commence dans la periode charniere entre les XIX e et XX e siecles. L'entite du pouvoir de Monze, p…
Testimony and Lies
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 comp…
Gardening ‐ Philosophy for Everyone: Cultivating Wisdom
Gardening - Philosophy for Everyone: Cultivating Wisdom
A Feminist Interpretation of Hume on Testimony
Hume is usually taken to have an evidentialist account of testimonial belief: one is justified in believing what someone says if one has empirical 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 relations 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 empi…
Sympathy in Hume's social epistemology
According to the reductionist interpretation of Hume on testimony, we come to believe what others tell us for the same kind of reason as we come to believe that the sun will rise tomorrow—both beliefs grounded in our experience of the respective regularities of testifiers and planetary motion. Hume's epistemology is explained in terms of one master mechanism—that is, causal or probabilistic inference, as this plays the role of an all‐purpose reli…
Philosophy (4 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Testimonial (3 works) · Bureaucracy (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics (2 works) · Ethnology (2 works) · Law (2 works)