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Justified True Belief + Diachronic Justification: A Contemporary Defence
I defend a diachronic constraint on justification as a necessary condition for knowledge. In my view (JTB + D), a belief is knowledge-apt only if its justification is maintainable over a context-sensitive interval Δ under ordinary avenues of evidence ...
Ahmet Küçükuncular
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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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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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Ernest Sosa ve Gettier Problemi [Ernest Sosa and the Problem of Gettier] [PDF]
In this article, I examine first Edmund Gettier’s criticism of the definition of knowledge within the traditional epistemology, then Ernest Sosa’s evaluation of Gettier problem.
Batak, Kemal
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O Problema de Gettier (doravante PG) é um marco na epistemologia contemporânea. Passado meio-século do sismo filosófico causado pelo famoso artigo de Gettier (1963), as réplicas continuam e a discussão em torno do problema reacende-se. Adotando nós, como
Rodrigues, Luís Estevinha
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Senofane e il “non sapere di sapere”
An examination of Xenophanes’ fragment DK 21 B 34 shows how it to some extent anticipates what is known in contemporary epistemological debate as the “Gettier problem.” According to the argument underlying this problem, it is not enough to have a ...
Massimo Pulpito
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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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Experimental Epistemology and "Gettier" Cases
This chapter reviews some faults of the theoretical literature and findings from the experimental literature on “Gettier” cases. Some “Gettier” cases are so poorly constructed that they are unsuitable for serious study.
John Turri
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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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Manifest Failure: The Gettier Problem Solved [PDF]
This paper provides a principled and elegant solution to the Gettier problem. The key move is to draw a general metaphysical distinction and conscript it for epistemological purposes. Section 1 introduces the Gettier problem.
John Turri, Turri, John
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