I am grateful for the opportunity to have read Christoph Jäger and Nicholas Shackel’s interesting and creative “Testimonial Authority and Knowledge Transmission” (2025) and to have been invited to pen a reply. As the next time that a reader of a philosophical paper agrees with its author will no doubt be the first, it may be expected that I have some reservations regarding Jäger and Shackel’s paper. And, indeed, despite considerable admiration for it, I do. Jäger and Shackel argue ...
