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Communal and Institutional Trust: Authority in Religion and Politics [PDF]
Linda Zagzebski’s book on epistemic authority is an impressive and stimulating treatment of an important topic. 1 I admire the way she manages to combine imagination, originality and argumentative control.
Coady, C. A. J.
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Migrations of Trust: Reasonable Trust and Epistemic Transgressions
Despite an immense amount of literature on the topic of trust, there is still no account that offers a plausible epistemological framework for the phenomenon of reasonable trust. The main claim of this article is that reasonable trust and distrust are phenomena based upon practical knowledge, while non-reasonable trust and distrust result from ...
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Parameterizing developmental changes in epistemic trust [PDF]
Children rely on others for much of what they learn, and therefore must track who to trust for information. Researchers have debated whether to interpret children's behavior as inferences about informants' knowledgeability only or as inferences about both knowledgeability and intent.
Baxter S, Eaves, Patrick, Shafto
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Assurance Views of Testimony [PDF]
Assurance theories of testimony attempt to explain what is distinctive about testimony as a form of epistemic warrant or justification. The most characteristic assurance theories hold that a distinctive subclass of assertion (acts of “telling”) involves ...
Nickel, Philip J.
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Zagzebski on Rationality [PDF]
This paper examines Linda Zagzebski’s account of rationality, as set out in her rich, wide-ranging, and important book, Epistemic Authority: A Theory of Trust, Authority, and Autonomy in Belief.
Pritchard, Duncan, Ryan, Shane
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Expert testimony, law and epistemic authority [PDF]
© Society for Applied Philosophy, 2016 This article discusses the concept of epistemic authority in the context of English law relating to expert testimony.
Ward, Tony
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Agency Evidentialism: Trust and Doxastic Voluntarism
In debates about trust and testimony, epistemologists have traditionally been divided into two groups: those who hold that accepting the testimony of other people should be a kind of credulity without evidence (anti-reductivism) and those who assert that
Snježana Prijić-Samaržija
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This article focuses on the power dynamics between social work researchers in positions of privilege and marginalized groups. It suggests that epistemic injustices experienced by certain marginalized groups cause epistemic damage, including loss of trust
Marie-Claire Gauthier
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Faith as an Epistemic Disposition [PDF]
This paper presents and defends a model of religious faith as an epistemic disposition. According to the model, religious faith is a disposition to take certain doxastic attitudes toward propositions of religious significance upon entertaining certain ...
Byerly, T. Ryan
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Epistemic trust can be defined as the ability to rely on social and cultural information from others. It allows to integrate the new knowledge in the vision of self and world, promoting the learning from experience. Recently, the issue of epistemic trust
Giovanna Esposito +3 more
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