CAN VIRTUE EPISTEMOLOGY SOLVE THE GETTIER PROBLEM? Cover Image

CZY „EPISTEMOLOGIA CNÓT” POZWOLI NAM ROZWIĄZAĆ PROBLEM GETTIERA?
CAN VIRTUE EPISTEMOLOGY SOLVE THE GETTIER PROBLEM?

Author(s): Bartosz Kaluziński
Subject(s): Epistemology, Analytic Philosophy, Hermeneutics
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Keywords: Virtue Epistemology; Gettier cases; knowledge; justified true belief; Ernest Sosa; Linda Zagzebski;

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this paper is to investigate if ideas developed by philosophers representing the current called Virtue Epistemology are able to resolve the Gettier problem. First of all, I am going to remind what classical concept of knowledge as justified true belief consists in, then I present co-called Gettier cases that are counterexamples to the classical idea of knowledge. Then I investigate how the idea of evaluating beliefs formulated by Ernest Sosa is able to deal with hard cases made by Gettier, but also Chisholm and Goldman. I argue that Sosa’s conception could be viewed as satisfactory analysis of knowledge, if we slightly modify it to accommodate Goldman’s case.

  • Issue Year: 2015
  • Issue No: 30
  • Page Range: 158-174
  • Page Count: 17
  • Language: Polish