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Journal Article
HOW TO BE A PESSIMIST ABOUT AESTHETIC TESTIMONY
2011
Overview
Testimony is an important source of knowledge. In many areas, a good deal of what an individual knows, she knows on the word of others. This holds even if people concentrate on pure cases of testimony--those in which the audience H learns that ρ on the basis that her informant T claims that A and independently of any evidence that T offers for that claim. Indeed, in general, where there is something to know, testimony provides a legitimate way to acquire that knowledge. Of course, one cannot believe just anybody. Gullibility is to be avoided, and informants who themselves lack knowledge cannot, perhaps, instill knowledge in their audience--even if what they say is true. But, provided one is suitably careful, on most issues taking the word of others is a legitimate way to come by belief. Here, Hopkins explores the forms that pessimism might take, and in particular the form that in some ways is most promising.
Publisher
The Journal of Philosophy, Inc,Journal of Philosophy
