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    Leonard — Carmelics
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    Leonard

    contemporaryAnalytic Epistemology

    Leonard is a contemporary epistemologist working in the philosophy of testimony. Their work examines how testimonial justification is transmitted and generated across chains of speakers, contributing to debates between transmission and generation views of testimonial warrant.

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    Defended a generationist or chain-transmission account of testimonial justification

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    Contributed to debates on the source and sustainability of epistemic warrant in indirect testimony

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    Engaged with the problem of extended testimony chains and their epistemic reliability

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    Testimonial justification can be generated through a chain of testimony even when the transmitting testifier lacks justified belief

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