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| knowledge is belief for sufficient (objective and subjective) reason | |
| Συγγραφέας: Mark Schroeder Mark Schroeder: knowledge is belief for sufficient (objective and subjective) reason (pdf, 26 pages) This  paper  defends  a  simple  thesis:  that  knowledge  is  belief  for  reasons  that  are  both  objectively  and subjectively sufficient.  I take a dogmatic approach, devoting the bulk  of the paper to an  explanation of what this means, and of why it explains both what knowledge is like, and why it is important; the theory is justified by its fruits.  I go  on to illustrate, by appeal  to my main thesis, how knowledge comes to play some of the key roles that it does, including looking at Williamson’s arguments that knowledge is prime and for  its  distinctive  explanatory  role,  as  well  as  why  my  account  explains  and  predicts  the  complicated behavior  of  knowledge  in  cases  involving  defeaters,  defeated  defeaters,  and  defeaters  whose  defeaters  are defeated,  as  well  as  the  different  possible  kinds  of  defeat  –  the  primary  source  of  complications  in  the Gettier literature.  These facts are easily explained by the central thesis of the paper, without either giving up on the analysis of knowledge or resorting to arbitrary or ad hoc measures.  Since the last five decades of literature  might  lead  one  to  find  it  fairly  audacious  to  propose  an  analysis  of  knowledge,  a  final  section addresses the putative inductive grounds for general pessimism about the Gettierological project. | |
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