TESTIMONY AS A SOURCE OF KNOWLEDGE

Abstract

Having a huge significance in various aspects of our lives, testimony is present when you ask for information from someone or merely believe in our birth date. However, during an enormous period in the history of epistemology, his significance as a generative epistemic source of knowledge has been neglected. Analyzing this tradition and its critics, in the first place, we analyze the work of David Hume, in which we find the first attack on the notion of testimony as source of information and generating knowledge and, furthermore, the establishment of the foundations of epistemological individualism. It will subsequently be exposed some of the most recent studies about testimonial justification characterized as an alternative to the Humean view, as C. A. J. Coady's non-reductionism, Jennifer Lackey's dualism, Martin Kusch”Ÿs communitarianism and Sanford C. Goldberg's reliabilism.