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Chapter 5 - Testimony and Knowledge from Non-Knowledge

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 July 2019

Federico Luzzi
Federico Luzzi
Affiliation:
University of Aberdeen
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Summary

I present the debate on testimonial knowledge from non-knowledge. After explaining Jennifer Lackey's challenges to the received view that a hearer can only come to know p testimonially if the speaker knows p, I raise several difficulties for Lizzie Fricker's view, according to which testimonial knowledge is necessarily second-hand knowledge, and reject it on the basis of these problems. I then argue that Sandy Goldberg's case of safe testimonial belief from unsafe testimony survives Lackey's criticism. I offer a first comparison between inferential and testimonial knowledge from non-knowledge in terms of defeaters.

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Lackeydefeaterstestimonyknowledge from non-knowledgeGoldbergLizzie Frickersecond-hand knowledgecreationist teacher
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Knowledge from Non-Knowledge
Inference, Testimony and Memory
 , pp. 121 - 166
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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