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346Testing What’s at Stake: Defending Stakes Effects for TestimonyTeorema: International Journal of Philosophy 36 (3): 163-183. 2017.This paper investigates whether practical interests affect knowledge attributions in cases of testimony. It is argued that stakes impact testimonial knowledge attributions by increasing or decreasing the requirements for hearers to trust speakers and thereby gain the epistemic right to acquire knowledge via testimony. Standard, i.e. invariantist, reductionism and non-reductionism fail to provide a plausible account of testimony that is stakes sensitive, while non- invariantist versions of both t…Read more
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Epistemology |
Metaphysics |
Social and Political Philosophy |
Asian Philosophy |