Testimony and lies

Philosophical Quarterly

Volumn 57, Issue 227, 2007, Pages 225-238

  O'Brien, Dan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 60949411156     PISSN: 00318094     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9213.2007.481.x     Document Type: Article

References (20)

1. See T. Williamson, Knowledge and its Limits (Oxford UP, 2000);
2. M. Welbourne, 'Testimony, Knowledge and Belief, in B. Matilal and A. Chakrabarti (eds), Knowing from Words (Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1994), pp. 297-314;
3. S. Reynolds, 'Testimony, Knowledge and Epistemic Goals', Philosophical Studies, 110 (2002), pp. 139-61.
4. E. Fricker, 'Telling and Trusting: Reductionism and Anti-Reductionism in the Epistemology of Testimony', Mind, 104 (1995), pp. 393-411, at p. 398.
5. J. Lackey, 'Learning from Words', forthcoming in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research (Lackey herself rejects this sincerity-condition on testimonial knowledge transmission).
6. See J. Barnes, A Pack of Lies: Towards a Sociology of Lying (Cambridge UP, 1994), p. 55;
7. see also S. Shapin, A Social History of Truth (Chicago UP, 1994), p. 339, for the claim that Pascal was similarly devious.
8. G. Michell, 'Women and Lying: a Pragmatic and Semantic Analysis of "Telling it Slant"', in A. Al-Hibri and M. Simons (eds), Hypatia Reborn: Essays in Feminist Philosophy (Indiana UP, 1990), pp. 175-91, at p. 189.
9. See W. Sellars, 'Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind', in H. Feigl and M. Scriven (eds), Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science, 1 (Univ. of Minnesota Press, 1956), pp. 253-329.
10. S. Goldberg, 'Testimonially Based Knowledge from False Testimony', The Philosophical Quarterly, 51 (2001), pp. 512-26.
11. B. Williams, Truth and Truthfulness: an Essay in Genealogy (Princeton UP, 2002), pp. 96-100.
12. See P. Grice, Studies in the Ways of Words (Harvard UP, 1989), pp. 86-143.
13. R. Audi, 'Testimony, Credulity, and Veracity', in J. Lackey and E. Sosa (eds), The Epistemology of Testimony (Oxford UP, 2006), pp. 25-49, at p. 25;
14. M. Kusch, Knowledge by Agreement (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2002), p. 63;
15. E. Sosa, Knowledge in Perspective: Essays in Epistemology (Cambridge UP, 1991), p. 219.
16. Lackey, 'Introduction', in Lackey and Sosa (eds), The Epistemology of Testimony, pp. 1- 21, at p. 3.
17. Williams, Truth and Truthfulness, p. 42.
18. Fricker, 'Second-Hand Knowledge', forthcoming in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research.
19. M. Dummett, 'Testimony and Memory', in Matilal and Chakrabarti (eds), Knowing from Words, pp. 251-72, at p. 258.
20. Fricker, 'Telling and Trusting', p. 407.