When Logic Meets Politics: Testimony, Distrust, and Rhetorical Disadvantage
The contested testimony in the Hill-Thomas ease is an illuminating test case for universalistic theories about the reliability of testimony. There is no reasonable alternative to universalistic standards of epistemic appraisal. And yet the charge by feminists and others that such criteria can be ap...
Main Author: | Trudy Govier |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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University of Windsor
1993-01-01
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Series: | Informal Logic |
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Online Access: | https://informallogic.ca/index.php/informal_logic/article/view/2476 |
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