BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//Grails iCalendar plugin//NONSGML Grails iCalendar plugin//EN VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260404T191455Z DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20140501T121500 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20140501T141500 SUMMARY:Trust and Reliance in Testimony UID:20260404T233313Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-f5d4878dd-4s97k TZID:Australia/Melbourne LOCATION:Parkville\, Melbourne\, Australia\, 3010 DESCRIPTION:

Abstract: Much of what we know we learn through others telling us. Several philosophers have thought that trust plays some crucial epistemic role in our coming to know via others&rsquo\; testimony. In this paper\, I distinguish some different epistemic roles that trust might be thought to play here: for example\, trust (in the teller) might be thought to be necessary for coming to know via telling\; or trust might be thought to provide some extra epistemic oomph that wouldn&rsquo\;t be available without trust. Then\, I use the well-known distinction between trusting someone and merely relying on them to argue that trust does not play the epistemic roles distinguished above. Finally\, I consider some important consequences of this conclusion for the epistemology of testimony.

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