Lackey, Jennifer.
Learning from words testimony as a source of knowledge / [electronic resource] : Jennifer Lackey. - Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2008. - 1 online resource (xii, 295 p.)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Jennifer Lackey reshapes the vigorous debate on testimony by showing that the standard view of the transmission of knowledge by testimony is fundamentally misguided. Her radical new theory holds that testimony is itself an irreducible source of new knowledge, to which both speaker and hearer contribute.
9780191711824 (ebook) : No price
Social epistemology.
Witnesses.
BD175
300.1
Learning from words testimony as a source of knowledge / [electronic resource] : Jennifer Lackey. - Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2008. - 1 online resource (xii, 295 p.)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Jennifer Lackey reshapes the vigorous debate on testimony by showing that the standard view of the transmission of knowledge by testimony is fundamentally misguided. Her radical new theory holds that testimony is itself an irreducible source of new knowledge, to which both speaker and hearer contribute.
9780191711824 (ebook) : No price
Social epistemology.
Witnesses.
BD175
300.1