ABSTRACT
This chapter offers an assessment of John McDowell’s disjunctivist epistemology of testimony. Having outlined the elements of testimonial disjunctivism, it then seeks to locate testimonial disjunctivism in the broader landscape of traditional reductionist and anti-reductionist theories in the epistemology of testimony. Contrary to the prevailing view, which identifies McDowell’s view of testimony as a version of anti-reductionism, it is argued here that testimonial disjunctivism has just as much in common with the traditional reductionism as it does with traditional anti-reductionism. Moreover, it is argued that the differences between traditional anti-reductionism and testimonial disjunctivism offer the latter a line of response to the objections prominently raised against traditional anti-reductionism.
