Testimony, trust, and authority

by McMyler, Benjamin

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Full title :Testimony, trust, and authority / Benjamin McMyler

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Publication Date:©2011

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Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
Place of Publication:Oxford
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2011

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Description:178 p.

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ISBN:9780199794331, 0199794332
oclc:ocn769366243
LC Classification:BD238.T47
Dewey Decimal:121 .3

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; 1 TESTIMONY AS A PHILOSOPHICAL PROBLEM; 1.1 TESTIMONY, KNOWLEDGE, AND UNDERSTANDING; 1.2 FROM HUMAN FAITH TO INDUCTIVE EVIDENCE; 1.3 ON MIRACLES: HUME VERSUS PORT ROYAL; 1.4 INFERENCE, PERCEPTION, AND SOCIALITY: HUME VERSUS REID; 2 KNOWING AT SECOND HAND; 2.1 WHAT IS TESTIMONIAL KNOWLEDGE?; 2.2 SECONDHANDNESS AND THE EPISTEMIC RIGHT OF DEFERRAL; 2.3 THE EPISTEMOLOGICAL PROBLEM OF TESTIMONY REVISITED; 2.4 AN ARGUMENT FROM SECONDHANDNESS; 2.5 SKEPTICISM ABOUT KNOWING AT SECOND HAND; 3 THREE MODELS OF EPISTEMIC DEPENDENCE; 3.1 THE EVIDENTIAL MODEL; 3.2 THE INHERITANCE MODEL; 3.3 THE SECOND-PERSONAL MODEL; 3.4 MORAN ON ASSURANCE; 3.5 INTERMEDIATE CASES AND THE RETURN OF EPISTEMIC AUTONOMY; 4 TRUSTING A PERSON; 4.1 THE GRAMMAR OF TRUST; 4.2 SECOND-PERSONAL ATTITUDES; 4.3 TRUST AS SECOND-PERSONAL; 4.4 TRUST AS COGNITIVE; 5 AUTHORITY, AUTONOMY, AND SECOND-PERSONAL REASONS; 5.1 SECOND AND THIRD-PERSONAL REASONS; 5.2 SECOND-PERSONAL REASONS FOR BELIEF; 5.3 BELIEF, EVIDENCE, AND EVIDENTIALISM; 5.4 THEORETICAL VERSUS PRACTICAL REASONS; 5.5 CONCLUSION: AUTHORITY, SOCIALITY, AND COGNITION