Gettier Problem

Presents a rich and accessible survey of an epistemological problem that continues to challenge philosophers.

List of contents

Introduction: meet the Gettier problem Stephen Hetherington; 1. The Gettier problem and fallibilism Charity Anderson; 2. Epistemic closure and post-Gettier epistemology of reasoning Claudio de Almeida; 3. Gettier cases and evidence Clayton Littlejohn; 4. The Gettier problem and externalism Rodrigo Borges; 5. The Gettier problem and context Delia Belleri and Annalisa Coliva; 6. The Gettier problem and epistemic luck Duncan Pritchard; 7. The sensitivity response to the Gettier problem Kelly Becker; 8. The Gettier problem and intellectual virtue John Greco; 9. Knowledge and wisdom Ernest Sosa; 10. The Gettier problem and the program of analysis Patrick Rysiew; 11. Intuition in the Gettier problem Elijah Chudnoff; 12. Experimental epistemology and 'Gettier' cases John Turri; 13. The Gettier problem's explicability problem Stephen Hetherington.

About the author

Stephen Hetherington is Professor of Philosophy at the University of New South Wales, Sydney. His many publications in epistemology include Knowledge and the Gettier Problem (Cambridge, 2016).

Summary

When philosophers try to understand the nature of knowledge, they have to confront the Gettier problem. This volume offers a sequence of accessible and distinctive chapters explaining the history of debate surrounding Gettier's challenge, and where that debate should take us next.

Product details

• Authors: Stephen Hetherington, Stephen (University of New South Wal Hetherington
• Assisted by: Stephen Hetherington (Editor), Stephen (University of New South Wales Hetherington (Editor), Hetherington Stephen (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.2018
• EAN: 9781316631102
• ISBN: 978-1-316-63110-2
• No. of pages: 266
• Series: Classic Philosophical Arguments; Classic Philosophical Argument; Classic Philosophical Arguments; Classic Philosophical Argument
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology, Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge