Relying on Others: An Essay in Epistemology

by SanfordC.Goldberg (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2010

  $112.14

  Sanford Goldberg examines the role that others play in our attempts to acquire knowledge of the world: through what they say ('testimonial knowledge') or through their salient silences. He argues that this sort of knowledge poses a challenge to some cherished individualistic assumptions in traditional theories of knowledge.