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Knowledge Transmission / by Stephen Wright.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextLanguage: English Series: Routledge Focus on PhilosophyPublisher: Boca Raton, FL : Routledge, 2018Edition: First editionDescription: 1 online resource (124 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781315111384
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version: : No titleDDC classification:
  • 121
LOC classification:
  •  BD181
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Also available in print format.
Contents:
Preface -- 1. What is Transmission? -- 2. Availability -- 3. Acquisition -- 4. Internalist Approaches -- 5. Reliabilist Approaches -- 6. A Transmission Theory of Testimony -- 7. Objections to Transmission. -- Index
Abstract: Our knowledge of the world comes from various sources. But it is sometimes said that testimony, unlike other sources, transmits knowledge from one person to another. In this book, Stephen Wright investigates what the transmission of knowledge involves and the role that it should play in our theorising about testimony as a source of knowledge. He argues that the transmission of knowledge should be understood in terms of the more fundamental concept of the transmission of epistemic grounds, and that the claim that testimony transmits knowledge is not only defensible in its own right, but indispensable to an adequate theory of testimony. This makes testimony unlike other epistemic sources.
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Preface -- 1. What is Transmission? -- 2. Availability -- 3. Acquisition -- 4. Internalist Approaches -- 5. Reliabilist Approaches -- 6. A Transmission Theory of Testimony -- 7. Objections to Transmission. -- Index

Our knowledge of the world comes from various sources. But it is sometimes said that testimony, unlike other sources, transmits knowledge from one person to another. In this book, Stephen Wright investigates what the transmission of knowledge involves and the role that it should play in our theorising about testimony as a source of knowledge. He argues that the transmission of knowledge should be understood in terms of the more fundamental concept of the transmission of epistemic grounds, and that the claim that testimony transmits knowledge is not only defensible in its own right, but indispensable to an adequate theory of testimony. This makes testimony unlike other epistemic sources.

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