By Ernest Sosa
Testimony is a vital resource of information: we're to a wide quantity reliant upon what others let us know. it's been the topic of a lot fresh curiosity in epistemology, and this quantity collects twelve unique essays at the subject by way of a number of the world's major philosophers. will probably be the start line for destiny study during this fertile box.
Contributors contain Robert Audi, C. A. J. Coady, Elizabeth Fricker, Richard Fumerton, Sanford C. Goldberg, Peter Graham, Jennifer Lackey, Keith Lehrer, Richard Moran, Frederick F. Schmitt, Ernest Sosa, and James Van Cleve.
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