The epistemology of testimony /
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| Imprint: | Oxford : Clarendon Press ; Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006. |
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| Description: | vi, 312 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6099704 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- I. Testimony and Thomas Reid
- 1. Testimony, credulity, and veracity
- 2. Reid on the credit of human testimony
- II. Testimony and its Place in Epistemology
- 3. The epistemic role of testimony: internalist and externalist perspectives
- 4. Liberal fundamentalism and its rivals
- 5. Knowledge: instrumental and testimonial
- III. Reductionism and Non-Reductionism in the Epistemology of Testimony
- 6. Reductionism and the distinctiveness of testimonial knowledge
- 7. Testimony and trustworthiness
- 8. 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. Testimonial justification and transindividual reasons
- 10. Testimony and epistemic autonomy
- V. New areas and new directions in the epistemology of testimony
- 11. Pathologies of testimony
- 12. Getting told and being believed
