Testimony and sincerity

Ratio

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 79-92

  Simpson, Thomas W ^a  

^a University of Cambridge   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84857571085     PISSN: 00340006     EISSN: 14679329     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9329.2011.00517.x     Document Type: Article

References (20)

1. The Social Character of Testimonial Knowledge', Journal of Philosophy, 97 (2000), pp. 581-601 (pp. 585-588).
2. see his 'Metaphysical Libertarianism and the Epistemology of Testimony', American Philosophical Quarterly, 41 (2004), pp. 37-50.
3. David K. Lewis, Convention: A Philosophical Study (Harvard University Press, 1969).
4. Thomas C. Schelling, The Strategy of Conflict (Harvard University Press, 1960).
5. Lewis, Convention, pp. 177-195.
6. The felicitous phrase is from Bernard Williams, Truth and Truthfulness: An Essay in Genealogy (Princeton University Press, 2004), p. 84.
7. Thomas Reid, An Inquiry into the Human Mind on the Principles of Common Sense, ed. by Derek R. Brookes (Edinburgh University Press, 1997), pp. 190-202.
8. nd edn (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1978), III.2.7.
9. nd edn. (Oxford: Blackwell, 1958), §2.
10. Bronislaw Malinowksi, 'The Problem of Meaning in Primitive Languages', in The Meaning of Meaning, ed. by C. K. Ogden and I. A. Richards (London: Kegan Paul, 1923), pp. 451-510 (p. 474).
11. nd edn. (Cambridge University Press, 1996), p. 109
12. Erving Goffman, 'On Face-work', in Interaction Ritual: Essays on face-to-face behaviour (Garden City, NY: Anchor Books, 1967), pp. 5-45.
13. Erving Goffman, The Presentation of the Self in Everyday Life (London: Penguin, 1959).
14. Penelope Brown and Stephen C. Levinson, Politeness: Some universals in language usage (Cambridge University Press, 1987), pp. 15-17.
15. Hudson, Sociolinguistics, p. 122.
16. Bella M. DePaulo et al., 'Lying in Everyday Life', Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 70 (1996), p. 993.
17. see also Bella M. DePaulo and Kathy L. Bell, 'Truth and Investment: Lies Are Told to Those Who Care', Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 71 (1996), p. 704.
18. For Jennifer Lackey's hybrid conception, see her Learning from Words: Testimony as a Source of Knowledge (Oxford University Press, 2008), Chap. 6.
19. See Michel J. Blais, 'Epistemic Tit for Tat', Journal of Philosophy, 84 (1987), pp. 363-375
20. John Woods, 'The Maladroitness of Epistemic Tit for Tat', Journal of Philosophy, 86 (1989), pp. 324-331.