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Testimonial knowledge and content preservationPhilosophical Studies 180 (10): 3073-3097. 2023.Most work in the epistemology of testimony is built upon a simple model of communication according to which, when the speaker asserts that p, the hearer must recover this very content, p. In this paper, I argue that this ‘Content Preservation Model’ of communication cannot bear the weight placed on it by contemporary work on testimony. It is popularly thought that testimonial exchanges are often successful such that we gain a great deal of knowledge through testimony. In addition, the testimonia…Read more
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Communicating Testimonial CommitmentErgo: An Open Access Journal of Philosophy. forthcoming.I argue for the Cooperative Warrant Thesis (CWT), according to which the determinants of testimonial contents in communication are given by the practical requirements of cooperative action. This thesis distances itself from conventionalist views, according to which testimony must be strictly bounded by conventions of speech. CWT proves explanatorily better than conventionalism on several accounts. It offers a principled and accurate criterion to distinguish between testimonial and non-testimonia…Read more
University of St. Andrews
PhD, 2015
Umeå, Västerbotten County, Sweden
Areas of Specialization
Epistemology |
Philosophy of Language |