Description: Edmund Gettier's 1963 verdict about what knowledge is not has become an item of philosophical orthodoxy, accepted by philosophers as a genuine epistemological result. It assures us that - contrary to what Plato and later philosophers have thought - knowledge is not merely a true belief well supported by epistemic justification. But that orthodoxy has generated the Gettier problem - epistemology's continuing struggle to understand how to accommodate Gettier's apparent result within an improved conception of knowledge. In this book, Stephen Hetherington argues that none of epistemology's standard attempts to solve that problem have succeeded: he shows how subtle yet fundamental mistakes - regarding explication, methodology, properties, modality, and fallibility - have permeated those responses to Gettier's challenge. His fresh and original book outlines a new way of solving the problem, and an improved grasp of Gettier's challenge and its significance is the result. In a sense, Plato can now embrace Gettier.
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EAN: 9781107149564
UPC: 9781107149564
ISBN: 9781107149564
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Item Length: 22.9 cm
Book Title: Knowledge and the Gettier Problem
Item Height: 236mm
Item Width: 160mm
Author: Stephen Hetherington
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Topic: Popular Philosophy
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication Year: 2016
Item Weight: 520g
Number of Pages: 254 Pages