Judging Well without a Personal Authority? On a Humean Possibility in Rousseau’s Pedagogical Project

• In Event: The Politics of Education and Formation of the Self

Brief Overview

I argue that Rousseau endorses Hume’s model of causal judgments in Books II & III of Emile, that his endorsement is limited to causal judgments on natural phenomena, and that this poses a critique of applying Hume’s epistemology to social phenomena.

Author

• Xinzhi Zhao, University of Wisconsin-Madison