Narrative Testimony

Narrative Testimony

Much of our testimony comes packaged as narrative: when we tell each other things, we are telling each other stories. And our beliefs, as well as our speech, often exploits the narrative form: we believe stories, as well as tell them. In this talk, I sketch a novel account of what it is to believe a story, and trace the implications of this view for the epistemology of testimony.

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