Jennifer Lackey

Learning from Words

Testimony as a Source of Knowledge

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Produktbeschreibung

Jennifer Lackey reshapes the vigorous current debate on testimony by showing that the standard view of the transmission of knowledge by testimony is fundamentally misguided. Her radical new theory holds that testimony is itself an irreducible source of new knowledge, to which both speaker and hearer contribute.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP UK
• Seitenzahl: 308
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 471g
• ISBN-13: 9780199575619
• ISBN-10: 0199575614
• Artikelnr.: 29930638

Autorenporträt

Jennifer Lackey is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Northwestern University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1: The Nature of Testimony
2: Rejecting Transmission
3: A Defense of Learning from Words
4: Norms of Assertion and Testimonial Knowledge
5: A Critique of Reductionism and Non-Reductionism
6: Dualism in the Epistemology of Testimony
7: Positive Reasons, Defeaters, and the Infant/Child Objection
8: Trust and Assurance: The Interpersonal View of Testimony
Appendix. Memory as a Generative Epistemic Source