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Jennifer Lackey
Lackey in 2010
EducationSaint Mary's College
Institutions
Doctoral advisorsErnest Sosa
Main interests
Social epistemology

Jennifer Lackey is an American academic; she is the Wayne and Elizabeth Jones Professor of Philosophy at Northwestern University.[1][2] Lackey is known for her research in epistemology,[3] especially on testimony,[4][5] disagreement,[6] memory,[7] the norms of assertion, and virtue epistemology.[8][9] She is the author of Learning from Words: Testimony as a Source of Knowledge[10][11][12] and of numerous articles and book chapters. She is also co-editor of The Epistemology of Testimony[13] and The Epistemology of Disagreement: New Essays.[14]

Education

Lackey graduated from Saint Mary's College in 1994 with a B.A. in philosophy and from the University of Chicago in 1995 with an M.A. in philosophy. In 2000, she graduated from Brown University with a Ph.D. in philosophy under the supervision of Ernest Sosa.

Research areas

Lackey's primary research interests lie in

Homo sapiens evolved from Homo erectus
, but nevertheless reliably conveys this fact about Homo sapiens to her students. This shows that the teacher imparts knowledge to her students that she fails to possess herself. Lackey then advances a theory of the epistemology of testimony that focuses on the linguistic or communicative items in testimonial exchanges, such as statements and other acts of communication, rather than the internal states of speakers, such as states of knowing and believing.

In other works, Lackey argues that reasonableness, rather than knowledge, is the norm of assertion,[18] that memory is a generative epistemic source,[19][20] and that lying requires deception.[21]

Lackey is also known for arguing against the claim central to virtue epistemology that knowledge should be understood in terms of the knower's deserving credit for the truth of her belief.

justified true belief
by accident.

Awards and fellowships

Lackey has received a number of awards, including a Charles A. Ryskamp Research Fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies,[23] the Young Epistemologist Prize,[24] and an Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities Fellowship.[25]

Selected works

  • Learning from Words: Testimony as a Source of Knowledge, (2008, hardback; 2010, paperback). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • The Epistemology of Disagreement: New Essays (2013), co-edited with David Christensen. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • The Epistemology of Testimony (2006), co-edited with Ernest Sosa. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • "Disagreement", forthcoming in Robert Audi (ed.), The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • "Taking Religious Disagreement Seriously", forthcoming in Timothy O'Connor and Laura Frances Goins (eds.), Religious Faith and Intellectual Virtue (Oxford: Oxford University Press).
  • "Lies and Deception: An Unhappy Divorce." Analysis 73 (2013): 236-48.
  • "Disagreement and Belief Dependence: Why Numbers Matter," in David Christensen and Jennifer Lackey (eds.), The Epistemology of Disagreement: New Essays (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013): 243-68.
  • "Group Knowledge Attributions," in Jessica Brown and Mikkel Gerken (eds.), Knowledge Ascriptions (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012): 243-69.
  • "Assertion and Isolated Secondhand Knowledge," in Jessica Brown and Herman Cappelen (eds.), Assertion (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011): 251-75.
  • "A Justificationist View of Disagreement's Epistemic Significance," in Adrian Haddock, Alan Millar, and Duncan Pritchard (eds.), Social Epistemology (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010): 298-325.
  • "What Should We Do When We Disagree?" in Tamar Szabó Gendler and John Hawthorne (eds.), Oxford Studies in Epistemology 3 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010): 274-93.
  • "What Luck Is Not." Australasian Journal of Philosophy 86 (2008): 255-67.
  • "Norms of Assertion." Noûs 41 (2007): 594-626.
  • "Why We Don't Deserve Credit for Everything We Know." Synthese 158 (2007): 345-61.
  • "Learning from Words." Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 73 (2006): 77-101.
  • "Memory as a Generative Epistemic Source." Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 70 (2005): 636-58.
  • "Testimonial Knowledge and Transmission." The Philosophical Quarterly 49 (1999): 471-90.

Miscellaneous

Lackey is editor-in-chief of both Episteme: Journal of Individual and Social Epistemology[26] and Philosophical Studies[27] and an epistemology subject editor for the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.[28]

Lackey was elected an at-large member of the board of officers for the American Philosophical Association in the first-ever association-wide vote for this position. Lackey began this three-year appointment July 1, 2014.[29]

Lackey has been a guest on Philosophy Talk on the topic of disagreement,[30] has discussed social epistemology with Alvin Goldman on Philosophy TV,[31] and has been interviewed for 3:AM Magazine.[32]

References

  1. ^ "Jennifer Lackey : Department of Philosophy - Northwestern University". www.philosophy.northwestern.edu.
  2. ^ "Jennifer Lackey". faculty.wcas.northwestern.edu.
  3. ^ Zalta, Edward N. (ed.). "Epistemology". Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
  4. ^ Zalta, Edward N. (ed.). "Epistemological Problems of Testimony". Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
  5. ^ "Epistemology of Testimony". Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
  6. ^ Zalta, Edward N. (ed.). "Religious Diversity". Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
  7. ^ Zalta, Edward N. (ed.). "Epistemological Problems of Memory". Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
  8. ^ Zalta, Edward N. (ed.). "Virtue Epistemology". Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
  9. ^ Zalta, Edward N. (ed.). "The Value of Knowledge". Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
  10. ^ Zimmerman, Aaron Z. (July 31, 2008). "Review of Learning from Words: Testimony as a Source of Knowledge" – via Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  11. doi:10.1093/mind/fzp036
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  12. ^ Christoph Kelp, Learning from words: Testimony as a source of knowledge – Jennifer Lackey - PhilPapers at PhilPapers
  13. doi:10.1093/mind/fzm1136
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  14. ^ Taylor and Francis Online - The Epistemology of Disagreement: New Essays by Christensen, David and Lackey, Jennifer (eds.)
  15. ^ Zalta, Edward N. (ed.). "Social Epistemology". Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
  16. S2CID 53604818
    – via PhilPapers.
  17. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-04-21. Retrieved 2014-04-20.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  18. ISBN 9780191008894
    – via Google Books.
  19. doi:10.1111/j.1933-1592.2007.00009.x
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  20. ^ Andrew Naylor, Justification and Forgetting - PhilPapers at PhilPapers
  21. doi:10.5840/logos-episteme20134229
     – via www.academia.edu.
  22. S2CID 30051909
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  23. ^ "ACLS American Council of Learned Societies | www.acls.org - Results". www.acls.org.
  24. ^ "Program 2005". philosophy.rutgers.edu.
  25. ^ "Fellows: Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities - Northwestern University". www.humanities.northwestern.edu.
  26. ^ "Episteme | Cambridge Core". Cambridge Core.
  27. ^ "Philosophical Studies – incl. option to publish open access". springer.com.
  28. ^ "Editorial Board (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)". plato.stanford.edu.
  29. ^ "New at-large board members elected - The American Philosophical Association". www.apaonline.org.
  30. ^ Philosophy Talk
  31. ^ "Alvin Goldman and Jennifer Lackey « Philosophy TV". www.philostv.com.
  32. ^ "on testimony -". May 31, 2013.

External links

Further reading

Reviews of Learning from Words

Papers that discuss Lackey's work

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