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The role of testimony in the getting of reliable belief or knowledge is a central but neglected epistemological issue. Western philosophical tradition has paid scant attention to the individual thinker's reliance upon the word of others; yet this reliance is both extensive and o…
"N'était-il pas raisonnable d'espérer qu'avec la libre circulation de l'information et l'augmentation du niveau d'étude, les sociétés démocratiques tendraient vers une forme de sagesse collective? Cet essai vivifiant propose, en convoquant de nombreux exemples, [de voir] comment…
Since Plato, knowledge has been taken to entail justified true belief. On this view of knowledge, Plato's question as to why knowledge is more valuable than true belief must be answered in part by explaining the value of justified belief. An attractive explanation is that justif…
