Testimony and Other Minds

Erkenntnis 80 (1):173-183 (2015)
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In this paper I defend the claim that testimony can serve as a basic source of knowledge of other people’s mental lives against the objection that testimonial knowledge presupposes knowledge of other people’s mental lives and therefore can’t be used to explain it

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10.1007/s10670-014-9619-8

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