Relying on Others: An Essay in Epistemology

by Sanford C. Goldberg

Book Overview

Sanford Goldberg investigates the role that others play in our attempts to acquire knowledge of the world. Two main forms of this reliance are examined: testimony cases, where a subject aims to acquire knowledge through accepting what another tells her; and cases involving "coverage", where a subject aims to acquire knowledge of something by reasoning that if things were not so she would have heard about it by now. Goldberg argues that these cases...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199659370
• ISBN13: 9780199659371
• Release Date: December 2012
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.4"