Philosophy › Section G · Epistemology › Topic G.2
Knowledge and the Gettier problem
Knowing seems to be more than believing truly, but what is the extra ingredient? A three-page paper from 1963 showed that the most natural answer fails, and the search for a better one reshaped epistemology.
In this topic
- More than true belief
- Justified true belief
- Where the analysis came from
- Gettier's 1963 paper
- Worked example: Gettier's second case
- Older and newer cases
- Adding a fourth condition
- Replacing the justification condition
- Worked example: testing the fixes
- Is the problem solvable?
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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