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C.A.J. Coady
Also known as: Coady, Anthony Coady
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Epistemology of Testimony | Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy iep.utm.edu 7 facts
referenceElizabeth Fricker published 'Telling and Trusting: Reductionism and Anti-Reductionism in the Epistemology of Testimony' in Mind in 1995, which served as a critical notice of C.A.J. Coady's 1992 work.
claimC.A.J. Coady uses a thought experiment involving Martians to demonstrate that language interpretation is impossible unless one assumes that the language used by the speakers generally tracks the external world.
claimC.A.J. Coady argues that David Hume's explanation for why testimonial beliefs are supported inductively is mistaken because Hume relies on evidence from other people to establish the inductive base for the reliability of testimony.
claimC.A.J. Coady (1992) argues that a speaker testifies only if they possess the relevant competence and their statement that p is directed to those in need of evidence for whom p is relevant to a disputed or unresolved question.
claimC.A.J. Coady argues that the act of interpreting testimonial utterances requires an assumption that testimony is reliable.
claimC.A.J. Coady, Tyler Burge, and Peter Graham argue that there is an a priori reason to accept testimonially-based beliefs, though they differ on whether to demand that such beliefs be based on specific reasons.
claimThe most prominent debate in the epistemology of testimony is between 'reductionism' and 'non-reductionism,' terms coined by C.A.J. Coady in 1973.
Social Epistemology – Introduction to Philosophy - Rebus Press press.rebus.community 1 fact
claimThomas Reid, C.A.J. Coady, Matthew Weiner, Peter Graham, and Sanford Goldberg are representative proponents of non-reductionism in the epistemology of testimony.
Social Epistemology - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy plato.stanford.edu Feb 26, 2001 1 fact
claimC. A. J. Coady provided a philosophical study of testimony in his 1992 book 'Testimony: A Philosophical Study'.
Epistemology of Testimony - Bibliography - PhilPapers philpapers.org 1 fact
referenceSignificant contemporary works in the epistemology of testimony include C. A. J. Coady’s 'Testimony: A Philosophical Study' (1992), Tyler Burge’s 'Content Preservation' (1993) and 'Interlocution, Perception, and Memory' (1997), Elizabeth Fricker’s 'Against Gullibility' (1994) and 'Second-Hand Knowledge' (2006), Jennifer Lackey’s 'Learning from Words' (2008), and Sanford Goldberg’s 'Relying on Others' (2010).
Social Epistemology - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy plato.stanford.edu Aug 28, 2019 1 fact
perspectiveC.A.J. Coady argues against global reductionism, asserting that the observational basis of ordinary epistemic agents is too limited to support an inductive inference regarding the general reliability of testimony.