Knowledge as Acceptable Testimony
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Knowledge as Acceptable Testimony

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Knowledge as Acceptable Testimony

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Standard philosophical explanations of the concept of knowledge invoke a personal goal of having true beliefs, and explain the other requirements for knowledge as indicating the best way to achieve that goal. In this highly original book, Steven L. Reynolds argues instead that the concept of knowledge functions to express a naturally developing kind of social control, a complex social norm, and that the main purpose of our practice of saying and thinking that people 'know' is to improve our system for exchanging information, which is testimony. He makes illuminating comparisons of the knowledge norm of testimony with other complex social norms - such as those requiring proper clothing, respectful conversation, and the complementary virtues of tact and frankness - and shows how this account fits with our concept of knowledge as studied in recent analytic epistemology. His book will interest a range of readers in epistemology, psychology, and sociology.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2017
ISBN
9781108195652
Topic
Philosophy
Subtopic
Epistemology in Philosophy

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title
  3. Title page
  4. Copyright information
  5. Table of contents
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. 1 Social Norms, Knowledge, and Philosophy
  8. 2 What Is Knowledge?
  9. 3 Developing a Concept of Knowledge
  10. 4 Is That Our Concept of Knowledge?
  11. 5 What Is Justified Belief?
  12. 6 Justified Belief Is the Appearance of Knowledge
  13. 7 Testimonial Knowledge and Social Norms
  14. 8 Knowledge from Testimony
  15. 9 Doxastic Voluntarism and Epistemic Evaluations
  16. 10 Why We Should Prefer Knowledge
  17. References
  18. Index