When philosophers try to understand the nature of knowledge, they have to confront the Gettier problem. This problem, set out in Edmund Gettier's famous paper of 1963, has yet to be solved, and has challenged our best attempts to define what knowledge is. This volume offers an organised sequence of accessible and distinctive chapters explaining the history of debate surrounding Gettier's challenge, and where that debate should take us next. The chapters describe and evaluate a wide range of ideas about knowledge that have been sparked by philosophical engagements with the Gettier problem, including such phenomena as fallibility, reasoning, evidence, reliability, truth-tracking, context, luck, intellectual virtue, wisdom, conceptual analysis, intuition, experimental philosophy, and explication. The result is an authoritative survey of fifty-plus years of epistemological research - along with provocative ideas for future research – into the nature of knowledge.
Edited by:
Stephen Hetherington Imprint: Cambridge University Press Country of Publication: United Kingdom Dimensions:
Height: 246mm,
Width: 173mm,
Spine: 15mm
Weight: 480g ISBN:9781316631102 ISBN 10: 1316631109 Series:Classic Philosophical Arguments Pages: 266 Publication Date:08 November 2018 Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Undergraduate
Format:Paperback Publisher's Status: Active
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).