Relying on others : an essay in epistemology /

Sanford Goldberg examines the role that others play in our attempts to acquire knowledge of the world: through what they say or through their salient silences. He argues that this sort of knowledge poses a challenge to some cherished 'individualistic' assumptions in traditional theories of...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Goldberg, Sanford, 1967-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2010.
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Table of Contents:
  • Testimony and individualist epistemology
  • Orthodox reliabilism and the epistemic significance of testimony
  • Process and environment in testimonial belief-formation
  • Epistemic reliance and the extendedness hypothesis
  • Objections to extended reliability
  • If that were true I would have heard about it by now
  • Reliabilism as social epistemology.