Physical environments and their images feature increasingly prominently today in efforts to contend publicly with political violence, making aesthetics ever-significant discourses practices of testimony. Critics have shown that the publicness platforms used these is marked by disparate levels types participation agency. Relatively underexplored, however, how those disadvantaged this disparity n...

This is an author produced version of a paper published in Synthese. This paper has been peer-reviewed but does not include the final publisher proof-corrections or journal pagination. ABSTRACT The assumption that we largely lack reasons for accepting testimony has dominated its epistemology. Given the further assumption that whatever reasons we do have are insufficient to justify our testimoni...

There is something peculiar about aesthetic testimony. It seems more di cult to gain knowledge of aesthetic properties based solely upon aesthetic testimony than it is in the case of other types of property. In this paper, I argue that we can provide an adequate explanation at the level of the semantics of aesthetic language without defending any substantive thesis in epistemology or about aest...

Refugees are often depicted in studies and popular media as helpless need of rescuing. In the song “Hmoob Zaj,” which was released on YouTube 2019, Hmong rapper Shong Lee humanizes refugee experiences by sharing a story that has been “secreted” (M. Vang, 2021, p. 10) U.S. government. Through public archiving this YouTube, presents what Espiritu (2014) calls an “oppositional narrative” (p. 163) ...

Children fall under the special category of vulnerable witnesses. Children's vulnerability is the reason that we must approach obtaining the child's testimony in the criminal proceedings with special attention. It is important to take the child's testimony as soon as possible and to avoid the repetition of interrogation. The criminal proceedings law and the juvenile court law enable children in...