How lucky can you get?

Sanford C. Goldberg

pp. 315-327

in: Duncan Pritchard (ed), Epistemic luck, Synthese 158 (3), 2007.

Abstract

In this paper, I apply Duncan Pritchard’s anti-luck epistemology to the case of knowledge through testimony. I claim (1) that Pritchard’s distinction between veritic and reflective luck provides a nice taxonomy of testimony cases, (2) that the taxonomic categories that emerge can be used to suggest precisely what epistemic statuses are transmissible through testimony, and (3) that the resulting picture can make clear how testimony can actually be knowledge-generating.

Cited authors

Pritchard Duncan