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  title info:
    title: Testimony
    sub title: a philosophical study
  name:
    name part: Coady, C. A. J.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Oxford Scholarship Online
  type of resource: text
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    place:
      place term: Oxford
    publisher: Clarendon
    date issued: 1992
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (x, 315 pages)
  abstract: The role of testimony in the getting of reliable belief or knowledge is a central but neglected epistemological issue. In this work of original philosophy, Professor Coady explores the nature of testimony and the philosophical debates about it, in order to show how it might be defended as a source of knowledge.
  table of contents: I. The Problematic: The domain of testimony; What is testimony?; Objections and clarifications; II. The Tradition: Testimony, observation, and the reductive approach; Deciding for testimony; The analogical approach; Scottish fundamentalism; III. The Solution: The status of testimony; Language and mind; IV: The Puzzles: Astonishing reports; The disappearance of history; Dretske's drinker; V. The Applications: Collingwood and historical testimony; Mathematical knowledge and reliable authority; Psychology and the law; Experts and the law.
  target audience: specialized
  note: C. A. J. Coady.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Knowledge, Theory of
  subject:
    topic: Witnesses
  subject:
    topic: Other minds (Theory of knowledge)
  subject:
    topic: Belief and doubt
  subject:
    topic: Other (Philosophy)
  subject:
    topic: Social epistemology
  subject:
    topic: Altérité
  subject:
    topic: Croyance et doute
  subject:
    topic: Théorie de la connaissance
  subject:
    topic: Témoins
  subject:
    topic: Épistémologie sociale
  subject:
    topic: epistemology
  subject:
    topic: Belief and doubt
  subject:
    topic: Knowledge, Theory of
  subject:
    topic: Other minds (Theory of knowledge)
  subject:
    topic: Witnesses
  subject:
    topic: Beweis
  subject:
    topic: Erkenntnistheorie
  subject:
    topic: Zeugnis
  subject:
    topic: Kennis
  subject:
    topic: Getuigen
  subject:
    topic: Getuigenverklaringen
  subject:
    topic: Connaissance, Théorie de la
  subject:
    topic: Témoins
  subject:
    topic: Autrui
  subject:
    topic: Doute
  subject:
    topic: PHILOSOPHY
  subject:
    topic: Logic
  subject:
    topic: Mind & Body
  subject:
    topic: Modern
  subject:
    topic: History & Surveys
  subject:
    topic: Cognitive Psychology & Cognition
  subject:
    topic: PSYCHOLOGY
  subject:
    topic: RELIGION
  classification: BD181
  classification: 121
  classification: 08.32
  classification: 86.09
  classification: 5,1
  classification: CC 4400
  classification: ER 630
  classification: KN390 COA
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    title info:
      title: Testimony
    name:
      name part: Coady, C.A.J.
    origin info:
      publisher: Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University, 1992
    identifier: (DLC) 91026438
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  record info:
    record content source: AU@
    record creation date: 091203
    record change date: 20260319204728.9
    record identifier: in00005727021
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng