ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the importance of the idea of transmission to the epistemology of testimony. It considers the prospects for theories that seek to account for testimony as an epistemic source without the idea of transmission. The first of these, the chapter considers the internalist approach to the epistemology of testimony. The internalist approach to the epistemology of testimony is the product of applying an internalist approach to epistemology more generally to the domain of testimony. The chapter focuses on accessibilist internalist theories. If one takes a mental-state internalist or epistemological disjunctivist approach to the epistemology of testimony, then what emerges is a distinctive account of how transmission takes place, rather than a theory that maintains that it does not. The internalist claim that the reasons that a listener is aware of are important to the epistemology of testimony is surely correct.
