The transmission of knowledge and justification

Synthese 193 (1):293-311 (2016)
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This paper explains how the notion of justification transmission can be used to ground a notion of knowledge transmission. It then explains how transmission theories can characterise schoolteacher cases, which have prominently been presented as counterexamples to transmission theories

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