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Knowledge on Trust (Hardcover)
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Knowledge on Trust (Hardcover)
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We know a lot about the world and our place in it. We have come to
this knowledge in a variety of ways. And one central way that we,
both as individuals and as a society, have come to know what we do
is through communication with others. Much of what we know, we know
on the basis of testimony. In Knowing on Trust, Paul Faulkner
presents an epistemological theory of testimony, or a theory that
explains how it is that we acquire knowledge and warranted belief
from testimony.
The key questions addressed in this book are: what makes it
reasonable to accept a piece of testimony? And what warrants belief
formed on this testimonial basis? Faulkner argues that existing
theories of testimony largely fail because they do not recognise
how issues of practical rationality motivate the first question,
and this is what makes testimony distinctive as a source of
knowledge. At the heart of the theory this book presents is the
idea that trust is central to answering these two questions. An
attitude of trust can make it reasonable to depend on another's
testimony, but what warrants testimonial belief is not trust but
the body of evidence the testimony originates from. Testimonial
knowledge and testimonially warranted belief are formed on trust.
Faulkner goes on to argue that our having a way of life wherein
testimony can provide such a source of knowledge and warrant is
dependent upon a society in which a certain kind of trust is
possible.
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