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The Gettier Problem

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title The Gettier Problem
Authors and Contributors      Edited by Stephen Hetherington
SeriesClassic Philosophical Arguments
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:266
Dimensions(mm): Height 246,Width 173
Category/GenrePhilosophy - epistemology and theory of knowledge
ISBN/Barcode 9781316631102
ClassificationsDewey:121
Audience
Professional & Vocational
Illustrations Worked examples or Exercises; 2 Tables, black and white; 2 Line drawings, black and white

Publishing Details

Publisher Cambridge University Press
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publication Date 8 November 2018
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

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.

Author Biography

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).