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Virtue Perspectivism, Normativity, and the Unity of Knowledge
Daimon, 2018 It will be argued that personal agency, far from lacking epistemic value, contributes to knowledge in a substantial way. To this end, it will be claimed that what Sosa calls an epistemic perspective is necessary to solve the binding problem in ...
Modesto Gómez Alonso
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Sorte, virtude, e anulabilidade epistêmica
Principia: An International Journal of Epistemology, 2016 Duncan Pritchard has suggested that anti-luck epistemology and virtue epistemology are the best options to solve the Gettier problem. Nonetheless, there are challenging problems for both of them in the literature.
João Rizzio Vicente Fett
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Gaṅgeśa on Epistemic Luck [PDF]
Journal of Indian Philosophy, 2021 AbstractThis essay explores a problem for Nyāya epistemologists. It concerns the notion of pramā. Roughly speaking, a pramā is a conscious mental event of knowledge-acquisition, i.e., a conscious experience or thought in undergoing which an agent learns or comes to know something. Call any event of this sort a knowledge-event. The problem is this.
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Anti-luck virtue epistemology [PDF]
, 2012 It is argued that there are two ‘master’ intuitions about knowledge⎯an anti-luck intuition and an ability intuition⎯and that these impose distinct epistemic demands.
Pritchard, Duncan
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, 2019 In this chapter, we will explore the luck at issue in Gettier-styled counterexamples and the subsequent problem it poses to any viable reductive analysis of knowledge.
Church, Ian M.
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In defence of single-premise closure [PDF]
, 2017 It’s often thought that the phenomenon of risk aggregation poses a problem for multi-premise closure but not for single-premise closure. But recently, Lasonen-Aarnio and Schechter have challenged this thought.
Tang, Weng
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What's the Point of Understanding? [PDF]
, 2019 What is human understanding and why should we care about it? I propose a method of philosophical investigation called ‘function-first epistemology’ and use this method to investigate the nature and value of understanding-why.
Hannon, Michael
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Real Knowledge Undermining Luck [PDF]
, 2016 Based on the discussion of a novel version of the Barn County scenario, the paper argues for a new explication of knowledge undermining luck.
van Riel, Raphael
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Lucky Achievement: Virtue Epistemology on the Value of Knowledge [PDF]
, 2018 Virtue epistemology argues that knowledge is more valuable than Gettierized belief because knowledge is an achievement, but Gettierized belief is not. The key premise in the achievement argument is that achievement is apt (successful because competent ...
Ho, Tsung‐Hsing
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The modal account of luck revisited [PDF]
, 2016 According to the canonical formulation of the modal account of luck [e.g. Pritchard (2005)], an event is lucky just when that event occurs in the actual world but not in a wide class of the nearest possible worlds where the relevant conditions for that ...
Carter, J. Adam, Peterson, Martin
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