The Epistomology of Testimony

Erscheinungsjahr 2006
ISBN: 978-0-19-927600-4
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 320 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 652 g

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lackey, Jennifer

Sosa, Ernest

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Wissenschaften: Theorie, Epistemologie, Methodik
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Erkenntnistheorie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Wissenschaftstheorie, Wissenschaftsphilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Introduction

- I. Testimony and Thomas Reid

- 1: Robert Audi: Testimony, credulity, and veracity

- 2: James Van Cleve: Reid on the credit of human testimony

- II. Testimony and its Place in Epistemology

- 3: Richard Fumerton: The epistemic role of testimony: internalist and externalist perspectives

- 4: Peter Graham: Liberal fundamentalism and its rivals

- 5: Ernest Sosa: Knowledge: instrumental and testimonial

- III. Reductionism and Non-Reductionism in the Epistemology of Testimony

- 6: Sanford C. Goldberg: Reductionism and the distinctiveness of testimonial knowledge

- 7: Keith Lehrer: Testimony and trustworthiness

- 8: Jennifer Lackey: It takes two to tango: beyond reductionism and non-reductionism in the epistemology of testimony

- IV. Testimony and the Extent of Our Dependence on Others

- 9: Frederick F. Schmitt: Testimonial justification and transindividual reasons

- 10: Elizabeth Fricker: Testimony and epistemic autonomy

- V. New areas and new directions in the epistemology of testimony

- 11: C. A. J. Coady: Pathologies of testimony

- 12: Richard Moran: Getting told and being believed