Abstract

Mainstream and formal epistemology naturally meet on issues pertaining to justification and knowledge transmission for one agent and cognitive interaction issues between two or more rational agents. Principles of transmission of justification, knowledge, and other epistemic properties have been subject to extensive investigation and discussion in the recent epistemological literature. Some discussions zoom in on epistemic transmission within a single agent. For instance, it has been hotly debated whether Moore’s infamous proof of a material world transmits warrant from the premises to the conclusion. Some argue that it fails because one of its premises cannot be warranted prior and independently of the conclusion. More generally, it is an open issue whether the justification of perceptual belief transmits to all its logical consequences or whether it cannot transmit to the negations of the non-perceiving hypotheses (such as sceptical alternatives). Formal epistemologists have been investigating the conditions that permit incremental confirmation to transmit across entailment. Other discussions concern the transmission of true belief, warrant or knowledge between agents—the discussion of testimonial warrant and knowledge being a prime example, another being the debate over whether certain arrangements (such as free speech) do better in terms of promotion of true beliefs in groups of agents than alternative arrangements.

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