%0 Journal Article %1 keren2007epistemic %A Keren, Arnon %D 2007 %I Cambridge Univ Press %J Episteme %K belief epistemology learning philosophy trust %N 03 %P 368--381 %T Epistemic authority, testimony and the transmission of knowledge %U https://lecturers.haifa.ac.il/he/hcc/akeren/Documents/Keren-episteme-2007.pdf %V 4 %X I present an account of what it is to trust a speaker, and argue that the account can explain the common intuitions which structure the debate about the transmission view of testimony. According to the suggested account, to trust a speaker is to grant her epistemic authority on the asserted proposition, and hence to see her opinion as issuing a second order, preemptive reason for believing the proposition. The account explains the intuitive appeal of the basic principle associated with the transmission view of testimony: the principle according to which, a listener can normally obtain testimonial knowledge that p by believing a speaker who testifies that p only if the speaker knows that p. It also explains a common response to counterexamples to this principle: that these counterexamples do not involve normal cases of testimonial knowledge.

@article{keren2007epistemic, abstract = {I present an account of what it is to trust a speaker, and argue that the account can explain the common intuitions which structure the debate about the transmission view of testimony. According to the suggested account, to trust a speaker is to grant her epistemic authority on the asserted proposition, and hence to see her opinion as issuing a second order, preemptive reason for believing the proposition. The account explains the intuitive appeal of the basic principle associated with the transmission view of testimony: the principle according to which, a listener can normally obtain testimonial knowledge that p by believing a speaker who testifies that p only if the speaker knows that p. It also explains a common response to counterexamples to this principle: that these counterexamples do not involve normal cases of testimonial knowledge.}, added-at = {2015-01-07T16:59:49.000+0100}, author = {Keren, Arnon}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2d80b08fd4b4eb530d406c42a09183c08/yish}, interhash = {72b8523b15edb1d533b6598df114f06d}, intrahash = {d80b08fd4b4eb530d406c42a09183c08}, journal = {Episteme}, keywords = {belief epistemology learning philosophy trust}, number = 03, pages = {368--381}, publisher = {Cambridge Univ Press}, timestamp = {2015-01-07T16:59:49.000+0100}, title = {Epistemic authority, testimony and the transmission of knowledge}, url = {https://lecturers.haifa.ac.il/he/hcc/akeren/Documents/Keren-episteme-2007.pdf}, volume = 4, year = 2007 }