Logos and episteme
Jinhua HE
ABSTRACT: The views of epistemic buck-passing (also known as the deferral of epistemic challenge) has been used to argue for the epistemic distinctiveness of testimonial knowledge. The overall strategy for the argumentation is to demonstrate that the epistemic distinctiveness of testimonial knowledge depends on a distinctive feature of it, i.e., epistemic buck-passing, granted the truthfulness of any of these views of epistemic buck-passing. This paper examines these views and aims to reveal that, none of them successfully motivates the claim that epistemic buck-passing is a distinctive feature of testimonial knowledge. Hence, if we aim to argue that testimonial knowledge is an epistemically distinctive kind of knowledge, some other approach is needed.
