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The epistemology of testimony /

0199276005 (hbk.)

0199276013

9780199276004 (hbk.)

9780199276011 (pbk.)

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The epistemology of testimony /

[Book]

edited by Jennifer Lackey and Ernest Sosa

New York :

Oxford University Press,

2006

vi, 312 p. ;

24 cm

Includes index

Testimony and the legacy of Thomas Reid -- Testimony and its place in epistemology -- Reductionism and non-reductionism in the epistemology of testimony -- Testimony and the extent of our dependence on others -- New areas and new directions in the epistemology of testimony

Testimony, credulity, and veracity / Robert Audi -- Reid on the credit of human testimony / James Van Cleve -- The epistemic role of testimony: internalist and externalist perspectives / Richard Fumerton -- Liberal fundamentalism and its rivals / Peter Graham -- Knowledge: instrumental and testimonial / Ernest Sosa -- Reductionism and the distinctiveness of testimonial knowledge / Sanford C. Goldberg -- Testimony and trustworthiness / Keith Lehrer -- It takes two to tango: beyond reductionism and non-reductionism in the epistemology of testimony / Jennifer Lackey -- Testimonial justification and transindividual reasons / Frederick F. Schmitt -- Testimony and epistemic autonomy / Elizabeth Fricker -- Pathologies of testimony / C.A.J. Coady -- Getting told and being believed / Richard Moran

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"How do we acquire knowledge from either the spoken or written word of others? This is the question at the centre of The Epistemology of Testimony, a collection of essays devoted to the epistemological issues that arise from an examination of testimonial knowledge. Despite its historical neglect, this topic has occasioned an explosion of interesting and innovative philosophical work in recent years. The Epistemology of Testimony is intended to build on and further develop this work by bringing together new papers by some of the leading scholars in the field. Since this volume is the only collection of papers on testimony strictly within the analytic tradition, it represents a new and significant contribution to this fertile epistemological terrain. The volume is divided into five parts and contains twelve articles written by some of the central figures working both specifically in the literature on testimony and in epistemology more broadly. Most of the papers collected in this volume discuss issues in the epistemology of testimony from a contemporary point of view, though some offer treatments that are grounded in the work of prominent historical figures. All of the papers focus on fundamental issues framing the epistemological literature on testimony, and offer new insights or developments to the current debates: some do so by providing novel examinations of the relationship that testimony bears to other sources of information, while others point to new, cutting-edge approaches to theorizing about testimonial knowledge. Anyone working in epistemology, or concerned with issues involving the social dimensions of knowledge, should find the papers in this book both interesting and valuable. Book jacket."--BOOK JACKET

Social epistemology

Lackey, Jennifer

Sosa, Ernest

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