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Safety and Knowledge in God [PDF]

, 2014
In recent ”secular’ Epistemology, much attention has been paid to formulating an ”anti-luck’ or ”safety’ condition; it is now widely held that such a condition is an essential part of any satisfactory post-Gettier reflection on the nature of knowledge ...
Mawson, T. J.
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Hinge trust*

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Volume 110, Issue 3, Page 939-958, May 2025.
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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Epistemic Value and Fortuitous Truth

Principia: An International Journal of Epistemology, 1997
Why are the conditions for propositional knowledge so difficult to discover or devise in this post-Gettier age? Why do not most epistemologists agree on roughly the same analysis as they appear to have done in the pre-Gettier paradise?
Colin Cheyne
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A modal theory of justification

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Volume 110, Issue 3, Page 1031-1045, May 2025.
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

Educational Theory, Volume 75, Issue 2, Page 315-326, April 2025.
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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Justified True Belief + Diachronic Justification: A Contemporary Defence

Philosophies
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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Fiction and Thought Experiment - A Case Study [PDF]

, 2016
Many philosophers are very sanguine about the cognitive contributions of fiction to science and philosophy. I focus on a case study: Ichikawa and Jarvis’s account of thought experiments in terms of everyday fictional stories.
Dohrn, Daniel
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Knowledge, Justification, and Reason-Based Belief

, 2015
Is knowledge definable as justified true belief ("JTB")? We argue that one can legitimately answer positively or negatively, depending on how the notion of justification is understood. To facilitate our argument, we introduce a simple propositional logic
Egré, Paul, Marty, Paul, Renne, Bryan
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Knowledge-First Theories of Justification [PDF]

, 2020
Knowledge-first theories of justification give knowledge priority when it comes to explaining when and why someone has justification for an attitude or an action. The emphasis of this entry is on knowledge-first theories of justification for belief.
Silva, Paul
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Normal Knowledge: Toward an Explanation-Based Theory of Knowledge [PDF]

, 2018
In this paper we argue that knowledge is characteristically safe true belief. We argue that an adequate approach to epistemic luck must not be indexed to methods of belief formation, but rather to explanations for belief.
Peet, Andrew, Pitcovski, Eli
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