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Elizabeth Fricker
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Epistemology of Testimony | Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy iep.utm.edu 10 facts
referenceElizabeth Fricker published 'Trusting Others in the Sciences: a priori or Empirical Warrant?' in Studies in History and Philosophy of Science in 2002.
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.
claimElizabeth Fricker is identified as a recent addition to the preservationist camp in the epistemology of testimony according to Jennifer Lackey.
claimElizabeth Fricker argues that when a hearer forms a belief based on a teller's testimony, the hearer typically holds a higher-order belief that the teller would not assert or vouch for the proposition unless the teller knew it to be true.
referenceElizabeth Fricker published 'Testimony and Epistemic Autonomy' in the 2006 collection edited by Lackey and Sosa.
referenceElizabeth Fricker authored 'Testimony: Knowing Through Being Told', published in the 'Handbook of Epistemology' edited by I. Niiniluoto, Matti Sintonen, and J. Wolenski in 2004.
claimElizabeth Fricker is considered a recent addition to the preservationist camp in the epistemology of testimony according to the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
referenceElizabeth Fricker published 'Second-Hand Knowledge' in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research in 2006.
referenceElizabeth Fricker published 'Varieties of Anti-Reductionism About Testimony—A Reply to Goldberg and Henderson' in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research in 2006.
referenceElizabeth Fricker published 'The Epistemology of Testimony' in the Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society Supplement in 1987.
Social Epistemology – Introduction to Philosophy - Rebus Press press.rebus.community 2 facts
referenceElizabeth Fricker authored the chapter 'Inference to the Best Explanation and the Receipt of Testimony: Testimonial Reductionism Vindicated', published in the 2017 book 'Best Explanations: New Essays on Inference to the Best Explanation'.
claimJack Lyons and Elizabeth Fricker defend reductionism in the epistemology of testimony by utilizing inference to the best explanation.
Social Epistemology - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy plato.stanford.edu Feb 26, 2001 1 fact
referenceElizabeth Fricker authored 'Against Gullibility', published in 'Knowing from Words' by Springer in 1994.
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).
Epistemology - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy plato.stanford.edu Dec 14, 2005 1 fact
referenceElizabeth Fricker published "Against Gullibility" in 1994, which discusses the epistemology of testimony and the conditions under which one should accept information from others.
Epistemological Problems of Testimony plato.stanford.edu Apr 1, 2021 1 fact
claimElizabeth Fricker and Ernest Sosa defend the position that testimony should be identified with assertion, meaning one testifies that a proposition is true if and only if one asserts that the proposition is true.