Sanford Goldberg examines the role that others play in our attempts to acquire knowledge of the world: through what they say ('testimonial knowledge') or through their salient silences. He argues that this sort of knowledge poses a challenge to some cherished 'individualistic' assumptions in traditional theories of knowledge. INDICE: Introduction; 1: Testimony and Knowledge Individualism; 2: Orthodox Reliabilism and Testimony's Epistemic Significance; 3: Process and Environment in Testimonial Belief-Formation; 4: Epistemic Reliance and the Extendedness Hypothesis; 5: Objections to the Extendedness Hypothesis; 6: If that were true I would have heard about it by now; 7: Reliabilism as Social Epistemology; Bibliography
- ISBN: 978-0-19-959324-8
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 240
- Fecha Publicación: 02/09/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés