Testimony, trust, and authority /
McMyler, Benjamin,
Testimony, trust, and authority / [print] Benjamin McMyler. - Oxford ; New York, New York : Oxford University Press, 2011. - viii, 178 pages ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographies and index.
Testimony as a philosophical problem -- Knowing at second hand -- Three models of epistemic dependence -- Trustung a person -- Authority, autonomy, and second-personal reasons.
Much of what we know is acquired by taking things on the word of other people whom we trust and treat as authorities concerning what to believe. But what exactly is it to take someone's word for something? What is it to treat another as an authority concerning what to believe, and what is it to trust this person for the truth? Benjamin McMyler argues that philosophers have failed to appreciate the nature and significance of our epistemic dependence on the words of others.
9780199794331
2010052009
GBB1A5169 bnb
015884335 Uk
Testimony (Theory of knowledge)
BD238.M478.T478 2011
Testimony, trust, and authority / [print] Benjamin McMyler. - Oxford ; New York, New York : Oxford University Press, 2011. - viii, 178 pages ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographies and index.
Testimony as a philosophical problem -- Knowing at second hand -- Three models of epistemic dependence -- Trustung a person -- Authority, autonomy, and second-personal reasons.
Much of what we know is acquired by taking things on the word of other people whom we trust and treat as authorities concerning what to believe. But what exactly is it to take someone's word for something? What is it to treat another as an authority concerning what to believe, and what is it to trust this person for the truth? Benjamin McMyler argues that philosophers have failed to appreciate the nature and significance of our epistemic dependence on the words of others.
9780199794331
2010052009
GBB1A5169 bnb
015884335 Uk
Testimony (Theory of knowledge)
BD238.M478.T478 2011