The paper presents an extension of the kind of hinge epistemology proposed in Extended Rationality. A Hinge Epistemology (Coliva 2015) to the case of testimonial justification. This extension stems naturally from a reinterpretation of the classic dispute between reductionists and anti‐reductionists with respect to testimonial justification. The interesting and novel aspect of that reinterpretation is that it brings to light the deep analogy between that classic dispute and the contemporary debate between so‐called “liberals” and “conservatives” with respect to the structure of perceptual justification. The paper first presents the reinterpretation; it subsequently proposes the extension of hinge epistemology to the case of testimonial justification; it then turns to a detailed discussion of the exact “hinges” testimonial justification is taken to depend on, and closes by considering some possible objections.

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证明铰链

本文提出了扩展理性中提出的铰链认识论的一种扩展。铰链认识论（Coliva，2015年），以证明证词合理性为例。这种扩展自然源于对还原论者和反还原论者之间关于证言正当性的经典争议的重新解释。这种重新解释的有趣和新颖的方面是，它揭示了经典争端与当代所谓的“自由主义者”和“保守主义者”之间关于感官辩护结构的辩论之间的深刻类比。本文首先提出了重新解释。随后提出将铰链认识论扩展到证词证明的情况；然后转向对确切的“铰链”证明依据所依赖的详细讨论，并通过考虑一些可能的反对意见而结束。