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Author : Jennifer Lackey
Release : 2006
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Synopsis The Epistemology of Testimony by : Jennifer Lackey
Download or read book The Epistemology of Testimony written by Jennifer Lackey. This book was released on 2006. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description
Author : Joseph Shieber
Release : 2015-07-03
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Synopsis Testimony by : Joseph Shieber
Download or read book Testimony written by Joseph Shieber. This book was released on 2015-07-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The epistemology of testimony has experienced a growth in interest over the last twenty-five years that has been matched by few, if any, other areas of philosophy. Testimony: A Philosophical Introduction provides an epistemology of testimony that surveys this rapidly growing research area while incorporating a discussion of relevant empirical work from social and developmental psychology, as well as from the interdisciplinary study of knowledge-creation in groups. The past decade has seen a number of scholarly monographs on the epistemology of testimony, but there is a dearth of books that survey the current field. This book fills that gap, assessing the strengths and weaknesses of all major competing theories. All chapters conclude with Suggestions for Further Reading and Discussion Questions.
Author : Jennifer Lackey
Release : 2010-03-18
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Rating : 564/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Learning from Words by : Jennifer Lackey
Download or read book Learning from Words written by Jennifer Lackey. This book was released on 2010-03-18. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Testimony is an invaluable source of knowledge. We rely on the reports of those around us for everything from the ingredients in our food and medicine to the identity of our family members. Recent years have seen an explosion of interest in the epistemology of testimony. Despite the multitude of views offered, a single thesis is nearly universally accepted: testimonial knowledge is acquired through the process of transmission from speaker to hearer. In this book, Jennifer Lackey shows that this thesis is false and, hence, that the literature on testimony has been shaped at its core by a view that is fundamentally misguided. She then defends a detailed alternative to this conception of testimony: whereas the views currently dominant focus on the epistemic status of what speakers believe, Lackey advances a theory that instead centers on what speakers say. The upshot is that, strictly speaking, we do not learn from one another's beliefs - we learn from one another's words. Once this shift in focus is in place, Lackey goes on to argue that, though positive reasons are necessary for testimonial knowledge, testimony itself is an irreducible epistemic source. This leads to the development of a theory that gives proper credence to testimony's epistemologically dual nature: both the speaker and the hearer must make a positive epistemic contribution to testimonial knowledge. The resulting view not only reveals that testimony has the capacity to generate knowledge, but it also gives appropriate weight to our nature as both socially indebted and individually rational creatures. The approach found in this book will, then, represent a radical departure from the views currently dominating the epistemology of testimony, and thus is intended to reshape our understanding of the deep and ubiquitous reliance we have on the testimony of those around us.
Author : Axel Gelfert
Release : 2014-09-25
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Synopsis A Critical Introduction to Testimony by : Axel Gelfert
Download or read book A Critical Introduction to Testimony written by Axel Gelfert. This book was released on 2014-09-25. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A critical survey of the contemporary philosophical debate about the word of others as a source of knowledge, pointing to areas of future research.
Author : C. A. J. Coady
Release : 1992-04-16
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Synopsis Testimony by : C. A. J. Coady
Download or read book Testimony written by C. A. J. Coady. This book was released on 1992-04-16. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The role of testimony in the getting of reliable belief or knowledge is a central but neglected epistemological issue. Western philosophical tradition has paid scant attention to the individual thinker's reliance upon the word of others; yet we are in fact profoundly dependent on others for a vast amount of what any of us claims to know. Professor Coady begins by exploring the nature and depth of our reliance upon testimony, addressing the complex definitional puzzles surrounding the idea. He analyses the tradition of debate on the topic in order to reveal the epistemic individualism which has given rise to an illusory ideal of `autonomous knowledge', and to gain a deeper understanding of the issues. He concludes this part of the book by showing what a feasible justification of testimony as a source of knowledge could be. In the second half of the book the author uses this new view of testimony to challenge certain widespread assumptions in the fields of history, mathematics, psychology, and law.
