Knowledge on Trust

by Paul Faulkner

Book Overview

We know a lot about the world and our place in it. We have come to this knowledge in a variety of ways. And one central way that we, both as individuals and as a society, have come to know what we do is through communication with others. Much of what we know, we know on the basis of testimony. In Knowledge on Trust, Paul Faulkner presents an epistemological theory of testimony, or a theory that explains how it is that we acquire knowledge and warranted...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019958978X
• ISBN13: 9780199589784
• Release Date: June 2011
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.7" x 8.5"