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Ep. 344: Gettier and Goldman on Justified True Belief (Part One)

Ep. 344: Gettier and Goldman on Justified True Belief (Part One)

The Partially Examined Life · Mark Linsenmayer

June 23, 202442m 28s

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Show Notes

On "Is Justified True Belief Knowledge?" (1963) by Edmund Gettier, "What Is Justified Belief?" (1979) by Alvin Goldman, and "The Inescapability of Gettier Problems" (1994) by Linda Zagzebski.

What is knowledge? Even if a belief is true and justified, does that make it knowledge? Gettier came up with exceptions, and other philosophers tried to figure out how to revise "justification" to rule these out.

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