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Learning from Words: Testimony as a Source of Knowledge
Lackey, Jennifer (Northwestern University)
Learning from Words: Testimony as a Source of Knowledge
Lackey, Jennifer (Northwestern University)
Jennifer Lackey reshapes the vigorous current debate on testimony by showing that the standard view of the transmission of knowledge by testimony is fundamentally misguided. Her radical new theory holds that testimony is itself an irreducible source of new knowledge, to which both speaker and hearer contribute.
308 pages, black & white illustrations
Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
Released | February 28, 2008 |
ISBN13 | 9780199219162 |
Publishers | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 308 |
Dimensions | 163 × 242 × 24 mm · 635 g |