[New Entry by Jon Robson and Rebecca Wallbank on March 13, 2024.]
Testimony is an important source of knowledge which is used ubiquitously in our daily lives (Coady 1992; Lackey 2008; Lackey a Sosa 2006; Matilal a Chakrabarti 1994; Faulkner 2011; Moran 2018; Wright 2019). Given this, it is particularly interesting that – despite the widespread general reliance on testimony – there are influential strands of thought which hold that we ought to avoid such reliance in certain atypical areas. The aesthetic domain has long been held to be one of these atypical areas…

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