PHILOS 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: False Premise, Contiguity
8 Jun 2016
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Gettier (he didn"t cover this last lecture) presents counterexamples to the traditional definition of knowledge as justified true belief. Belief that is accidentally true is not knowledge because it is. One way of dealing with the gettier cases is to 1) dismiss them or to: eliminate false evidence (2 problems) It gets rid of some good cases of knowledge. Sometimes reasoning with a false premise could lead to knowledge. But reasoning with true premise could lead to a gettier case (which is not knowledge) Researches epistemology, philosophy of mind, and cognitive science. Causal theory of knowledge supposed to explain only empirical knowledge (beliefs derived from the 5 senses) Empirical ex) knowing that the morning star is the evening star. Non-empirical knowledge a priori knowledge knowledge whose justification doesn"t depend on evidence from sensory experience. Knowing that the morning star is the morning star. David hume regarded as the greatest british philosopher, empiricist, naturalist and skeptic explains causation.
