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Gettier Cases and Normal Reasoners [PDF]
As it is well known, the characterization of knowledge in termsof “Justified True Belief” (JTB) has been deemed unsuccessful since the popularization of Gettier-type counterexamples.
Carlos García
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Do Safety Failures Preclude Knowledge?
The safety condition on knowledge, in the spirit of anti-luck epistemology, has become one of the most popular approaches to the Gettier problem. In the first part of this essay, I intend to show one of the reasons the anti-luck epistemologist presents ...
J. R. Fett
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Abstract Trust is central to epistemology, particularly in accounts of testimony, where it describes the relationship between a hearer and a speaker (or trustor and trustee), enabling the acquisition of information. The speaker's trustworthiness—marked by sincerity and knowledge—is essential for testimony to transmit knowledge or justified belief ...
Annalisa Coliva
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The Universality of Intuition an aposteriori Criticize to an apriori Assumption [PDF]
Intuition has a central role in philosophy, the role to arbitrating between different opinions. When a philosopher shows that "intuition" supports his view, he thinks this is a good reason for him.
Roohollah Haghshenas,
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A modal theory of justification
Abstract This article develops a modal theory of justification, according to which a belief is justified if it is more possible that it amounts to knowledge than that it does not. The core of the theory is neutral between internalism and externalism and it solves two problems that extant modal accounts of justification suffer from.
Jaakko Hirvelä
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Educating Open‐Mindedness through Philosophy in Schools
Abstract Closed‐mindedness is a characteristic trait of irresponsible believers. For this reason and others, educators should actively discourage closed‐mindedness in their students. One way to do this is to cultivate its opposing virtue: open‐mindedness.
Danielle Diver
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Contraexemplos à la Gettier – Serão Todos Apropriados?
Desde a publicação dos contraexemplos de Gettier à definição tradicional de conhecimento, em 1963, houve uma profusão de novos exemplos, todos eles visando mostrar haver certos casos de crença justificada verdadeira por sorte; casos que não podem ser ...
Luiz Helvécio Marques Segundo
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The Ethics of Belief Debate and the Norm of Teaching
Abstract The debate about the ethics of belief is a classic and it has given rise to wide‐ranging debates in epistemology, the philosophy of language, the philosophy of mind, as well as in ethics. In epistemology, the question is what the norms of belief are — should one believe what is true, what is well‐evidenced, what is pragmatic or what?
Ben Kotzee
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Putting the horse before the cart: a pragmatist analysis of knowledge
The definition of knowledge as justified true belief is the best we presently have. However, the canonical tripartite analysis of knowledge does not do justice to it due to a Platonic conception of a priori truth that puts the cart before the horse ...
Luís M. Augusto
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The term “Gettier Case” is a technical term frequently applied to a wide array of thought experiments in contemporary epistemology. What do these cases have in common? It is said that they all involve a justified true belief which, intuitively, is not knowledge, due to a form of luck called “Gettiering.” While this very broad characterization suffices ...
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