Output details
32 - Philosophy
University of Sheffield
Knowledge on Trust
The book develops and extends three of the four outputs selected for the 2008 RAE. "On Telling and Trusting" and "What is Wrong with Lying?" - outputs 1 and 2 of 4 - both employ an analysis (of trust) and an idea (that trust gives a reason for belief) that figure prominently in chapter 6 of the book. "On the Rationality of Our Response to Testimony" - output 3 of 4 - offers an argument (in defense of reductive views of testimony) that is developed in chapter 2 of the book. However, chapters 2 and 6 go substantially beyond these papers in their formulations, and chapters 1, 3, 4, 5, and 7 have no ancestors in previous papers.
A double-weighting request is made for this output because even though it develops and extends earlier papers - see additional information below for a more detailed specification of how - it represents a great deal more research than a single paper. It engages with existing positions in the epistemology of testimony and presents a sustained and complex argument for an original position. This is a substantial and original piece of research, which occupied the bulk of my research time in this REF period, and whose scope and ambition is far beyond that of an article.