Key works |
Historical
antecedents to the contemporary literature include Locke’s Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Hume’s On Miracles, and Reid’s An
Inquiry into the Human Mind and Essays
on the Intellectual Powers of Man. Significant contemporary works include: C.
A. J. Coady’s Testimony: A Philosophical
Study (Coady 1992), Tyler Burge’s “Content Preservation” (Burge 1993) and
“Interlocution, Perception, and Memory” (Burge 1997), Elizabeth Fricker’s “Against
Gullibility” (Fricker 1994) and “Second-Hand Knowledge” (Fricker 2006), Jennifer Lackey’s Learning from Words (Lackey 2008), and Sanford Goldberg’s
Relying on Others (Goldberg 2010). For an
overview, John Greco’s “Recent Work on Testimonial Knowledge” (Greco 2012) is a good
place to start. |