Burge on Testimony and Memory
Tyler Burge sees a close analogy between the acquisition of warranted belief from the testimony of others and the preservation of warranted belief in memory. I shall bring out a problem with his common account of testimony and memory, and offer two solutions. The first solution weakens the analogy between testimony and memory. The second keeps the close analogy but modifies the common account of both. Although the first solution has some plausibility, I think the second fits Burge's intentions better.