Description: Learning from Words: Testimony as a Source of Knowledge Jennifer Lackey is available to download Product Description: Testimony is an invaluable source of knowledge.This material is available do download at niSearch.com on Jennifer Lackey's eBooks, 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.Learning from Words: Testimony ... Textbook 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 theor...

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