The Testimony project is a pilot project following on from the five-year Basic Knowledge project (2007-2012). It will investigate central questions in this area: What is to count as testimony? Is the epistemic justification provided by testimony ultimately reducible to other sources? Under what conditions can hearers acquire testimonial knowledge? Is lying a form of testimony? Can knowledge of propositions from certain domains (e.g. aesthetics, morals, mathematics) be transmitted via testimony? How do theories of testimony interact with contemporary epistemic theories (contextualism/pragmatic encroachment) and views in recent philosophy of language?

For further information, please contact the project's conveners.