JTB

Question 1

What is the JTB account of knowledge?

Answer 1

S knows p; p is true; s is justified in believing p.

Cf. car in lobby/smith, ford, Barcelona.

Question 2

What does the original getter problem show? What is its basic structure?

Answer 2

That one has a JTB for X, but doesn’t have knowledge of X.

JTB based on intermediate premise which turns out to be false.

Question 3

What is the causal theory of knowledge?

Answer 3

S knows p iff p is casually connected in appropriate way with s’s believing p.

For: intuitive. Mostly correct.

Question 4

What are the 3 cases of over determination?

Answer 4

1. Seeing ‘cow’. Then later actually seeing cow.
2. Juliet finds Romeo dead. Poison? Actually natural death. Sufficient challenged.
3. Fake barns in county. Sees real barn. Not knowledge.

Question 5

What is reliabilism? How is a given method reliable?

Answer 5

Justified if formed by reliable cognitive process. Method reliable by frequency it gives true beliefs.

Obj: epistemic luck.
Rep: use other methods
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