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What epistemologists of testimony should learn from philosophers of science

Authors :
Sanford C. Goldberg
Source :
Synthese. 199:12541-12559
Publication Year :
2021
Publisher :
Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2021.

Abstract

The thesis of this paper is that, if it is construed individualistically, epistemic justification does not capture the conditions that philosophers of science would impose on justified belief in a scientific hypothesis. The difficulty arises from beliefs acquired through testimony. From this I derive a lesson that epistemologists generally, and epistemologists of testimony in particular, should learn from philosophers of science: we ought to repudiate epistemic individualism and move towards a more fully social epistemology.

Details

ISSN :
15730964 and 00397857
Volume :
199
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Synthese
Accession number :
edsair.doi...........4d1520c42fd6deced55a6b37ce97fd89
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-021-03342-x