Testimonial Knowledge and Transmission
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4351372 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jennifer Lackey (0000-0001-7754-248X, John Brown University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1999 |
| Volume | 49 |
| Issue | 197 |
| Pages | 471-490 |
| Publication date | 1999-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Philosophical Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0031-8094 • E-ISSN: 1467-9213 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1467-9213.00154 |
| OpenAlex | W2171734057 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 64 |
| References cited | 24 |
We often talk about knowledge being transmitted via testimony. This suggests a picture of testimony with striking similarities to memory. For instance, it is often assumed that neither is a generative source of knowledge: while the former transmits knowledge from one speaker to another, the latter preserves beliefs from one time to another. These considerations give rise to a stronger and a weaker thesis regarding the transmission of testimonial knowledge. The stronger thesis is that each speaker in a chain of testimonial transmission must know that p in order to pass this knowledge to a hearer. The weaker thesis is that at least the first speaker must know that p in order for any hearer in the chain to come to know that p via testimony. I argue that both theses are false, and hence testimony, unlike memory, can be a generative source of knowledge
Advertising · Cognitive psychology · Epistemology · Generative grammar · Linguistics · Order (exchange) · Telecommunications · Testimonial · Transmission (telecommunications) · Computer Science · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics · Philosophy · Philosophy and Theoretical Science · Psychology
Rationality
Entitled to Trust? Philosophical Frameworks and Evidence from Children
Recalibrating evolutionary debunking
Learning from Words
Autonomous Knowledge
Knowledge As Acceptable Testimony
Knowledge and its Limits
Tracking Truth
The Oxford Handbook of Lying
Knowing, Telling, Trusting
Body Checking in Anorexia Nervosa
De-Idealising Epistemology Through Collectivising
Reasons for telling
Safety and Unawareness of Error-Possibility
Being in a Position to Know is the Norm of Assertion
On the Possibility of Knowledge through Unsafe Testimony
On the roles of false belief and recalcitrant fear in anorexia nervosa
Who Asks Questions and Who Benefits from Answers
A Virtue Reliabilist Error-Theory of Defeat
Testimonial Reliance
Testimonial knowledge and content preservation
Brown on infallibilism’s problem with testimony
Epistemic negligence
Coherence in Science
Taste, traits, and tendencies
Suboptimal knowledge
Moral understanding
Content internalism and testimonial knowledge
Indigenous governance now
ChatGPT, Education, and Understanding
Reliability of testimonial norms in scientific communities
Memory as a Generative Epistemic Source
Epistemic Circularity Squared? Skepticism about Common Sense
The Defeasibility of Knowledge‐How
Learning from Words
Second-Hand Knowledge
What we owe each other, epistemologically speaking
In defence of gullibility
What epistemologists of testimony should learn from philosophers of science
The transmission of knowledge and justification
Assertion and safety
Testimonial worth
Why we don’t deserve credit for everything we know
Knowledge and normality
Infinitism
Radical Interpretation, Understanding, and the Testimonial Transmission of Knowledge
Meta-epistemic defeat
Trust and belief
On the epistemic significance of practical reasons to inquire
How lucky can you get
Reconsidering normative defeat
The unconscious generation of testimonial knowledge
Hearsay viewed through the lens of trust, reputation and coherence
P, but you don’t know that P
Testimony and knowing how
Fricker on testimonial justification
The pasts, presents, and futures of testimony
Reconsidering the role of inference to the best explanation in the epistemology of testimony
Knowledge of artefact functions
Testimonially based Knowledge from False Testimony
The Epistemology of Education
Knowing from Testimony
Talking Like a Plant
Witnessing After the Human
Warrant and Proper Function
The Role of Trust in Knowledge
Critical Notice
Knowledge
Externalist Theories of Empirical Knowledge
Elusive knowledge
Why believe what people say
Knowing and Asserting
Solving the Skeptical Problem
Content Preservation
Philosophical Explanations
Contemporary theories of knowledge
The Transmission of Knowledge
The Community of Knowledge
What is Testimony
| Unique citing works | 64 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,56 |
| Citation span | 2001 - 2026 (26) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 61 |