Testimony

This work package develops a novel, knowledge-first framework for the epistemology of testimony, together with a novel account of testimonial justification. The key hypothesis is that, because testimonial exchanges have the function of generating knowledge in hearers, hearers are by default justified in trusting a speaker’s claim (absent defeaters). 

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Outputs:

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• Simion, M. and Kelp, C. What is Trustworthiness? Manuscript.

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• Simion, M. The Epistemic Normativity of Conjecture. Manuscript.

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• Kelp, C. and Simion, M. What is Normative Defeat? Manuscript.

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• Simion, M. and Kelp, C. Forthcoming. Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence. Asian Journal of Philosophy, Special Inaugural Issue.

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• Simion, M. Forthcoming. Resistance to Evidence and the Duty to Believe. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research.

                      Winner of the Young Epistemologist Prize 2021

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• Simion, M. and Kelp, C. Forthcoming. A Social Epistemology of Assertion. Oxford Handbook of Social Epistemology, Lackey J. and McGlynn A. (Eds.). Oxford University Press.

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• Simion, M. Forthcoming. Talking to Social Robots. Communication with AI: Philosophical Perspectives, (Cappelen, H. and Sterken, R), Oxford University Press.

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• Simion, M. Forthcoming. Girl-Technology, Social Knowledge, and Defeat. In Feminist Philosophy and Emerging Technologies, Eds. Edwards, M. and Palermos, O., Routledge.

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• Simion, M. 2021. Testimonial Contractarianism: A Knowledge-First Social Epistemology. Nous 55/4: 891-916.​

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• Simion, M. (2021). Review of Sanford Goldberg Conversational Pressure: Normativity in Speech Exchanges, OUP 2020. The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 71, Issue 4.

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• Simion, M. 2020. Testimonial Contractarianism: A Knowledge-First Social Epistemology. Nous. Online First.