PHIL 2240 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Miranda Fricker, A Priori And A Posteriori, Empirical Evidence
16 Oct 2018
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Last class: perception was privileged at the expense of all other sources of unknowledge. Being told and testimony as a source of knowledge, memory and a priori. Knowledge, we know things from being told, remembering, other methods (empirical observations) reasoning and a priori knowledge. If you weren"t able to claim knowledge about what we were told, we would know almost nothing. Miranda fricker: testimony is the practice of gaining knowledge by being told. We do get info from being told, but can that rise to the title of knowledge. Reductionism: we can have knowledge based on testimony, but other dependence upon testimony is itself justified in virtue of something more foundational namely an individual"s own observations and inference. Hume: we only trust in testimony because our experience has shown it to be reliable. Thinks you can believe, be true, but you will never see it.
