naa a22 4500 510789145 CHVBK 20180411083313.0 cr unu---uuuuu 180411e20130901xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11406-012-9408-z doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11406-012-9408-z Gelfert Axel Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, National University of Singapore, 3 Arts Link, 117570, Singapore, Singapore aut Coverage-Reliability, Epistemic Dependence, and the Problem of Rumor-Based Belief [Elektronische Daten] [Axel Gelfert] Rumors, for better or worse, are an important element of public discourse. The present paper focuses on rumors as an epistemic phenomenon rather than as a social or political problem. In particular, it investigates the relation between the mode of transmission and the reliability, if any, of rumors as a source of knowledge. It does so by comparing rumor with two forms of epistemic dependence that have recently received attention in the philosophical literature: our dependence on the testimony of others, and our dependence on what has been called the ‘coverage-reliability' of our social environment (Goldberg 2010). According to the latter, an environment is ‘coverage-reliable' if, across a wide range of beliefs and given certain conditions, it supports the following conditional: If ~p were true I would have heard about it by now. However, in information-deprived social environments with little coverage-reliability, rumors may transmit information that could not otherwise be had. This suggests that a trade-off exists between levels of trust in the coverage-reliability of official sources and (warranted) trust in rumor as a source of information. Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht, 2012 Social epistemology nationallicence Rumor nationallicence Rumour nationallicence Coverage nationallicence Epistemic dependence nationallicence Philosophia Springer Netherlands 41/3(2013-09-01), 763-786 0048-3893 41:3<763 2013 41 11406 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11406-012-9408-z text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11406-012-9408-z text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Gelfert Axel Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, National University of Singapore, 3 Arts Link, 117570, Singapore, Singapore aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Philosophia Springer Netherlands 41/3(2013-09-01), 763-786 0048-3893 41:3<763 2013 41 11406 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer