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Fricker on testimonial justification
Authors:Igor Douven
Institution:Institute of Philosophy, University of Leuven, Kardinaal Mercierplein 2 - bus 3200, B-3000 Leuven, Belgium
Abstract:Elizabeth Fricker has recently proposed a principle aimed at stating the necessary and sufficient conditions for testimonial justification. Her proposal entails that a hearer is justified in believing a speaker’s testimony only if she recognizes the speaker to be trustworthy, which, given Fricker’s internalist commitments, requires the hearer to have within her epistemic purview grounds which justify belief in the speaker’s trustworthiness. We argue that, as it stands, Fricker’s principle is too demanding, and we propose some amendments to it. We further discuss the viability of her internalist approach to testimony.
Keywords:Testimony  Justification  Internalism  Social epistemology  Elizabeth Fricker
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