McMyler, Benjamin, <br/><br/>
Testimony, trust, and authority /  [print] 
Benjamin McMyler. 
 - Oxford ;  New York, New York :  Oxford University Press,  2011. 
 - viii, 178 pages ;  25 cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>Testimony as a philosophical problem --  Knowing at second hand --  Three models of epistemic dependence --  Trustung a person --  Authority, autonomy, and second-personal reasons. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780199794331 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2010052009 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. No.: </label>GBB1A5169  bnb 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: </label>015884335  Uk 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Testimony (Theory of knowledge)
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>BD238.M478.T478 2011