6.32 Testimony

Keywords: testimonial, trust, testimony, audience, hearer, burge, told, speaker, speech, source, entitlement, acquire, entitled, speakers, utterances

Number of articles: 36
Weighted number of articles: 33.29462

A scatterplot showing the raw number of articles that are in the epistemology subtopic testimony each year from 1945-2013. The average value is 0.51, and the median value is 0. It reaches a peak value of 7 in 2006, and has a minimum value of 0 in 1946.

Figure 6.133: Raw number of articles in topic 32, testimony.

A scatterplot showing the weighted number of articles that are in the epistemology subtopic testimony each year from 1945-2013. The average value is 0.48, and the median value is 0.1. It reaches a peak value of 4.23 in 2006, and has a minimum value of 0 in 1950.

Figure 6.134: Weighted number of articles in topic 32, testimony.

A scatterplot showing the proportion of philosophy articles that are in the epistemology subtopic testimony each year from 1945-2013. The average value is 0.1%, and the median value is 0.0%. It reaches a peak value of 1.0% in 2006, and has a minimum value of 0.0% in 1950.

Figure 6.135: Percentage of philosophy articles in topic 32, testimony.

A scatterplot showing the percentage of epistemology articles that are in the epistemology subtopic testimony each year from 1945-2013. The average value is 1.3%, and the median value is 0.6%. It reaches a peak value of 10.8% in 1948, and has a minimum value of 0.0% in 1950.

Figure 6.136: Percentage of epistemology articles in topic 32, testimony.

Characteristic Articles

  1. Tomoji Shogenji, 2006, “A Defense of Reductionism About Testimonial Justification of Beliefs,” Noûs 40:331–46.
  2. Jonathan E. Adler, 1994, “Testimony, Trust, Knowing,” Journal of Philosophy 91:264–75.
  3. Elizabeth Fricker, 2006, “Second-Hand Knowledge,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 73:592–618.
  4. Edward S. Hinchman, 2005, “Telling as Inviting to Trust,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 70:562–87.
  5. Sanford C. Goldberg, 2008, “Testimonial Knowledge in Early Childhood, Revisited,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 76:1–36.
  6. Elizabeth Fricker, 1995, “Critical Notice,” Mind 104:393–411.
  7. Paul Faulkner, 2007, “What is Wrong with Lying?,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 75:535–57.
  8. Paul Faulkner, 2007, “On Telling and Trusting,” Mind 116:875–902.
  9. Christopher J. Insole, 2000, “Seeing Off the Local Threat to Irreducible Knowledge by Testimony,” The Philosophical Quarterly 50:44–56.
  10. Miranda Fricker, 2012, “Group Testimony? the Making of a Collective Good Informant,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 84:249–76.

Highly Cited Articles

  1. Jennifer Lackey, 1999, “Testimonial Knowledge and Transmission,” The Philosophical Quarterly 49:471–90. (0.551844)