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Epistemology of Testimony | Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy iep.utm.edu 10 facts
perspectiveCritics of Tyler Burge's argument regarding testimony contend that he fails to account for the necessary assumption that the testifier's rational faculties are functioning properly.
claimCritics of Tyler Burge's argument for a priori entitlement to testimony suggest that he overlooks the necessary assumption that the testifier's rational faculties are functioning properly.
claimTyler Burge (1993) is lenient regarding testimonial "entitlement" but restricts the term "justification" to cases where the subject is aware of an entitlement.
claimTyler Burge (1993) argues that a subject is a priori entitled to accept a statement as true if that statement is intelligible and presented as true.
quoteTyler Burge states in his 1993 work: "We are a priori entitled to accept something that is prima facie intelligible and presented as true. For prima facie intelligible propositional contents prima facie presented as true bear an a priori prima facie conceptual relation to a rational source of true presentations-as-true: Intelligible propositional expressions presuppose rational abilities and entitlement; so intelligible presentations-as-true come prima facie backed by a rational source or resource of reason; and both the content of intelligible propositional presentations-as-true and the prima facie rationality of their source indicate a prima facie source of truth. Intelligible affirmation is the face of reason; reason is a guide to truth. We are a priori prima facie entitled to take intelligible affirmation at face value."
claimCritics argue that Tyler Burge's argument regarding the reliability of testifiers is problematic because it implies that individuals in any possible world are entitled to believe they are in a world where testifiers are generally reliable.
claimTyler Burge (1993) argues that while an a priori entitlement like belief in a mathematical proof might depend on sense perception (e.g., seeing writing on a page), this role for perception does not contribute to the rational or normative force behind such beliefs.
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.
claimTyler Burge argues that we may ignore possible worlds where testifiers' truth-seeking faculties are not functioning properly because they are not relevant alternatives, similar to how non-skeptics ignore brain-in-a-vat scenarios.
claimTyler Burge (1993) argues that a subject (S) is a priori entitled to accept a testifier's (T) statement if that statement is intelligible and presented as true.
Self-Consciousness - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy plato.stanford.edu Jul 13, 2017 7 facts
referenceTyler Burge published 'Origins of Objectivity' in 2010 through Clarendon Press in Oxford.
quoteTyler Burge writes: "Acknowledging, with the I concept, that an attitude or act is one’s own is acknowledging that rational evaluations of it which one also acknowledges provide immediate […] reason and rationally immediate motivation to shape the attitude or act in accordance with the evaluation […] The first-person concept fixes the locus of responsibility."
quoteTyler Burge wrote in 1996: "[t]o be capable of critical reasoning, and to be subject to certain rational norms necessarily associated with such reasoning, some mental acts and states must be knowledgeably reviewable."
claimTyler Burge argues that the capacity for critical reasoning is a necessary condition of conceptual self-consciousness because mastering and self-ascribing psychological concepts like belief requires the ability to recognize their role in reasoning.
claimTyler Burge argues that a critical reasoner must possess the second-order ability to think about thought contents, propositions, and the rational relations among them to recognize reasons as reasons.
claimRationalist accounts of self-knowledge, notably those by Tyler Burge and Richard Moran, posit a necessary connection between the requirements of rationality and self-awareness.
referenceTyler Burge published 'Our Entitlement to Self-Knowledge' in the Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society in 1996, volume 96, pages 91–116.
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
referenceTyler Burge authored the article 'Content Preservation', published in The Philosophical Review in 1993.
Social Epistemology - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy plato.stanford.edu Feb 26, 2001 1 fact
claimTyler Burge argued in his 1993 paper 'Content Preservation' that testimony functions as a mechanism for preserving knowledge content.