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Crítica, 2019 Ernest Sosa’s latest epistemology remains a version of virtue epistemology, and I argue here that it faces two central problems, pressing a point I have made elsewhere, that virtue epistemology does not present a complete answer to the problem of the ...
Jonathan L. Kvanvig
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, 2014 A common presupposition in epistemology is that the processes contributing to the generation of knowledge do not extend beyond the knower's skin. This paper challenges this presupposition.
Kelp, Christoph
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Hoops and Barns: a new dilemma for Sosa [PDF]
, 2017 This paper critically assesses Sosa’s normative framework for performances as well as its application to epistemology. We first develop a problem for one of Sosa’s central theses in the general theory of performance normativity according to which ...
Boult, Cameron +5 more
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Unreflective epistemology [PDF]
, 2014 Virtue epistemological accounts of knowledge claim that knowledge is a species of a broader normative category, to wit of success from ability. Fake Barn cases pose a difficult problem for such accounts. In structurally analogous but non-epistemic cases,
Kelp, Christoph
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Do Safety Failures Preclude Knowledge?
Principia: An International Journal of Epistemology, 2018 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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, 2017 In almost any domain of endeavour, successes can be attained through skill, but also by dumb luck. An archer’s wildest shots occasionally hit the target. Against enormous odds, some fair lottery tickets happen to win.
Broncano-Berrocal, Fernando +1 more
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Epistemology & Philosophy of Science, 2019 Theories, that answering the question “What is knowledge?” in analytic epistemology appears under the influence of Gettier cases – a way of refutation such theories of knowledge, that have truth and belief as constituent elements. In the paper were analyzed basic strategies of solving the Gettier problem. One way is to save the analysis of knowledge by
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The Gettier Problem and Context
, 2018 The relationship between contextualism and Gettier cases is controversial. Yet, David Lewis, in his influential “Elusive Knowledge”, links his contextualist thoughts to the discussion of some standard Gettier cases. This chapter explores the question whether contextualism can provide a satisfactory account of Gettier scenarios.
A. Coliva, D. Belleri
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A Critique on the Solution of Zakzewoski’s Virtue Responsibilism to the Gettier Problem
Religion and Social CommunicationEdmund Gettier demonstrated that the traditional analysis of knowledge (as a justified true belief) is insufficient. Some philosophers have proposed that virtue epistemology holds the key to solving the Gettier problem.
Liu Caiqin
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A Thomistic Approach to the Gettier Problem
Journal for the History of Analytical PhilosophyEpistemologists have been discussing the Gettier problem (GP) for 60 years. Numerous proposals have been suggested to solve it. In this article, I argue that the problem can be dismissed if we consider it in light of Thomas Aquinas’s view of truth ...
Roberto Di Ceglie
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