Knowledge Transmission

Our knowledge of the world comes from various sources. But it is sometimes said that testimony, unlike other sources, transmits knowledge from one person to another. In this book Stephen Wright investigates what the transmission of knowledge involves, and the role that it should play in our theorising about testimony as a source of knowledge.

List of contents

Preface 1. What is Transmission? 2. Availability 3. Acquisition 4. Internalist Approaches 5. Reliabilist Approaches 6. A Transmission Theory of Testimony 7. Objections to Transmission. Index

About the author

Stephen Wright is Lecturer in Philosophy at University College, Oxford, UK. With Sanford Goldberg, he is editor of Memory and Testimony: New Philosophical Essays (forthcoming).

Summary

Our knowledge of the world comes from various sources. But it is sometimes said that testimony, unlike other sources, transmits knowledge from one person to another. In this book Stephen Wright investigates what the transmission of knowledge involves, and the role that it should play in our theorising about testimony as a source of knowledge.

Product details

• Authors: Stephen Wright
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9780367733681
• ISBN: 978-0-367-73368-1
• No. of pages: 112
• Series: Routledge Focus on Philosophy
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / General, Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge