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Explaining Knowledge: New Essays on the Gettier Problem

Rodrigo Borges, Claudio de Almeida, and Peter D. Klein

Abstract

This is an edited collection of twenty-three new papers on the Gettier Problem and the issues connected with it. The set of authors includes many of the major figures in contemporary epistemology who have developed some of the well-known responses to the problem, and it also contains some younger epistemologists who bring new perspectives to the issues raised in the literature. Together, they cover the state of the art on virtually every epistemological and methodological aspect of the Gettier Problem. The volume also includes some skeptical voices according to which the Gettier Problem is not ... More

Keywords: epistemology, Gettier Problem, knowledge, fallibility, philosophical methodology, epistemic justification, epistemic luck

Bibliographic Information

Print publication date: 2017 Print ISBN-13: 9780198724551
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: December 2017 DOI:10.1093/oso/9780198724551.001.0001

Authors

Affiliations are at time of print publication.

Rodrigo Borges, editor
Associate Professor, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

Claudio de Almeida, editor
Professor, Professor of Philosophy at Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

Peter D. Klein, editor
Professor Emeritus, Rutgers University, New Jersey

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Front Matter

Title Pages

Dedication

Preface

List of Figures

List of Contributors

References

Introduction

Edmund L. Gettier

Part I Solving the Gettier Problem

1 Gettiered Belief

E. J. Coffman

2 The Nature of Knowledge

Peter D. Klein

3 Knowledge, Luck, and Virtue

Duncan Pritchard

4 Perceptual Capacities, Knowledge, and Gettier Cases

Susanna Schellenberg

5 Chained to the Gettier Problem— a Useful Falsehood?

Robert K. Shope

6 Accident, Evidence, and Knowledge

Jonathan Vogel

Part II The Gettier Legacy

7 Sed ubi Socrates currit? On the Gettier Problem before Gettier

Risto Hilpinen

8 Lessons from Gettier

Jonathan L. Kvanvig

9 Defeasible Reasoning and Representation

Keith Lehrer

10 The Lesson of Gettier

Linda Zagzebski

Part III Gettier and Philosophical Methodology

11 The Gettier Case and Intuition

Jessica Brown

12 Gettier and the Epistemic Appraisal of Philosophical Intuition

Alvin I. Goldman

13 The Metaphysical Gettier Problem and the X-Phi Critique

Ernest Sosa

14 Gettier Cases

Peter Blouw, Wesley Buckwalter, and John Turri

15 Knowledge, Noise, and Curve-Fitting

Jonathan M. Weinberg

Part IV Gettier and Inferential Knowledge

16 Inferential Knowledge and the Gettier Conjecture

Rodrigo Borges

17 Knowledge, Benign Falsehoods, and the Gettier Problem

Claudio de Almeida

18 Closure, Counter-Closure, and Inferential Knowledge

Branden Fitelson

19 Knowledge and False Belief

John Hawthorne and Dani Rabinowitz

Part V Dissolving the Gettier Problem

20 Golden Gettier

Fred Dretske

21 The Value of Knowledge and the Gettier Game

Richard Foley

22 Gettier Cases

Stephen Hetherington

23 The Difference between Knowledge and Understanding

Sherrilyn Roush

End Matter

Index