Wittgenstein’s Fly bottle

"What is your aim in Philosophy?" "To show the fly the way out of the fly-bottle" (Philosophical Investigations) -... Read more »
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Responses to Skepticism

Here I consider a couple of other responses to skepticism interesting in their own right. Both Externalist and Internalist... Read more »
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Internalist views

Internalist views could be said to lead to considering normativity as an issue in Epistemology. That is, what it is we 'should'... Read more »
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Externalist views

We have our basic Justified True Belief (JTB) account of knowledge. Subject (S) knows something (p) iff: (P1) p is... Read more »
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Externalism vs Internalism

Tricky, tricky. What a mess of a debate this is. I'll give it my best shot to clarify. First of all, we need to be aware of... Read more »
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Nozick’s truth-tracking

Okay! Brace yourselves for a tricky piece of work. (Well, it was tricky for me...) I'll do my best to give an accurate summary of... Read more »
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Gettier Cases

Gettier cases! Cases of our beloved Justified True Belief (JTB) account of knowledge gone wrong! Edmund Gettier famously gave... Read more »
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Justified True Belief

As we saw last time, the standard Closure Argument for knowledge seems to hold some problems. Indeed, it even gives fuel to the... Read more »
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