The Remark on Transmission of Testimony in Jennifer Lackey’s Epistemology The Remark on Transmission of Testimony in Jennifer Lackey’s Epistemology

Abstract

Abstract

Testimony is one of the sources of knowledge in epistemology. In social epistemology, testimony is the starting point for social knowledge since testimony is knowledge that arises from individual interaction. Generally, epistemology of testimony has main debate about transmission of testimony who testifier send testimony into hearer. According to traditional of transmission of testimony called TEP-N that focus on knowledge or belief of testifier about what he/she conveyed, hence testimony that is accepted as knowledge. However, Jennifer Lackey argues with TEP-N via two examples that she has presented. I have shown that Lackey's example can’t be contested with TEP-N.

Keywords: Testimony, Epistemology, Social Epistemology, Jennifer Lackey