Jennifer Lackey is an American academic; she is the Wayne and Elizabeth Jones Professor of Philosophy at Northwestern University.[1][2] Lackey is known for her research in epistemology,[3] especially on testimony,[4][5] disagreement,[6]memory,[7] the norms of assertion, and virtue epistemology.[8][9] She is the author of Learning from Words: Testimony as a Source of Knowledge[10][11][12] and of numerous articles and book chapters. She is also co-editor of The Epistemology of Testimony[13] and The Epistemology of Disagreement: New Essays.[14]