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Testimony, Trust, and Authority (Hardcover)
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Testimony, Trust, and Authority (Hardcover)
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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 then trust this person for the
truth? In Testimony, Trust, and Authority, Benjamin McMyler argues
that philosophers have failed to appreciate the nature and
significance of our epistemic dependence on the word of others.
What others tell us is the case-their testimony, as philosophers
use the term-provides us with a reason for belief that is
fundamentally unlike the kind of reason for belief provided by
other kinds of impersonal evidence. Unlike a footprint in the snow
or a bloody knife left at the scene of a crime, a speaker's
testimony provides an audience with what McMyler calls a
second-personal reason for belief, a reason for belief that serves
to parcel out epistemic responsibility for the belief
interpersonally between speaker and audience.
Testimony, Trust, and Authority is the most developed articulation
and defense of an interpersonal theory of the epistemology of
testimony yet to appear. It explains how this position relates to
the historical development of philosophical questions about
testimony, draws out what is at stake between this position and
other competing positions in the contemporary epistemological
literature on testimony, highlights and clarifies what is so
controversial about this position, and shows how this position
connects to broader philosophical issues concerning trust, the
second person, and the role of authority in both theoretical and
practical rationality. It will be of interest not only to
specialists in epistemology but to anyone interested in the nature
and significance of human sociality.
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