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- Book Title
- Relying on Others: An Essay in Epistemology
- Publication Date
- 2010-09-02
- ISBN
- 9780199593248
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Oxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-10
0199593248
ISBN-13
9780199593248
eBay Product ID (ePID)
92540881
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
228 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Relying on Others : an Essay in Epistemology
Subject
Epistemology, General
Publication Year
2010
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Philosophy
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
15 Oz
Item Length
8.7 in
Item Width
5.7 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2010-930305
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
"the book is full of clear, ingenious, and persuasive arguments, and I cannot but highly recommend it."--Diego E. Machuca, Philosophy in Review
Dewey Decimal
121
Table Of Content
Introduction1. Testimony and Knowledge Individualism2. Orthodox Reliabilism and Testimony's Epistemic Significance3. Process and Environment in Testimonial Belief-Formation4. Epistemic Reliance and the Extendedness Hypothesis5. Objections to the Extendedness Hypothesis6. If that were true I would have heard about it by now7. Reliabilism as Social EpistemologyBibliography
Synopsis
Sanford Goldberg investigates the role that others play in our attempts to acquire knowledge of the world. Two main forms of this reliance are examined: testimony cases, where a subject aims to acquire knowledge through accepting what another tells her; and cases involving "coverage", where a subject aims to acquire knowledge of something by reasoning that if things were not so she would have heard about it by now. Goldberg argues that these cases challenge some cherished assumptions in epistemology. Testimony cases challenge the assumption, prominent in reliabilist epistemology, that the processes through which beliefs are formed never extend beyond the boundaries of the individual believer. And both sorts of case challenge the idea that, insofar knowledge is a cognitive achievement, it is an achievement that belongs to the knowing subject herself. Goldberg uses results of this sort to question the broadly individualistic orthodoxy within reliabilist epistemology, and to explore what a non-orthodox reliabilist epistemology would look like. The resulting theory is a social-reliabilist epistemology -- one that results from the application of reliabilist criteria to situations in which belief-fixation involves epistemic reliance on others. Sanford Goldberg presents an important contribution both to the reliability literature in general epistemology and to the social epistemology of testimony and related topics., 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.
LC Classification Number
BD161
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