Journal Title
Title of Journal: Philosophia
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Springer Netherlands
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Authors: Spyridon Orestis Palermos
Publish Date: 2010/11/09
Volume: 39, Issue: 3, Pages: 597-613
Abstract
In her book Learning From Words 2008 Jennifer Lackey extensively argues for what she calls a dualist account of testimonial knowledge That is to say testimonial justification or warrant is neither reducible to nor completely independent of basic sources of knowledge such as sense perception memory and inductive inference Instead Lackey prompts us to move beyond the heated debate between reductionism and nonreductionism and towards her dualist account which she claims can accommodate both of these viewsLackey however does not classify her account into any of the broader trends of contemporary epistemology despite the fact that she 2007 has argued against virtue reliabilism through a counterexample of … testimonial knowledge viz the Morris case 2007 3521 Conversely the aim of the present paper is to investigate whether Lackey’s astute analysis is in line with the ability intuition–ie the idea that knowledge must be the product of cognitive
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