Published online by Cambridge University Press: 26 July 2019
I present the debate on testimonial knowledge from non-knowledge. After explaining Jennifer Lackey's challenges to the received view that a hearer can only come to know p testimonially if the speaker knows p, I raise several difficulties for Lizzie Fricker's view, according to which testimonial knowledge is necessarily second-hand knowledge, and reject it on the basis of these problems. I then argue that Sandy Goldberg's case of safe testimonial belief from unsafe testimony survives Lackey's criticism. I offer a first comparison between inferential and testimonial knowledge from non-knowledge in terms of defeaters.
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