A Virtue Theory of Testimony

Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 114 (2pt2):189-211 (2014)
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This paper aims to outline, evaluate, and ultimately reject a virtue epistemic theory of testimony before proposing a virtue ethical theory. Trust and trustworthiness, it is proposed, are ethical virtues; and from these ethical virtues, epistemic consequences follow

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10.1111/j.1467-9264.2014.00370.x

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Testimony: a philosophical study.C. A. J. Coady - 1992 - New York: Oxford University Press.
Internal and External Reasons.Bernard Williams - 1979 - In Ross Harrison (ed.), Rational action: studies in philosophy and social science. New York: Cambridge University Press. pp. 101-113.

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