124: The Gettier Problem and Knowledge
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In 1963 Edmund Gettier's short paper offering counterexamples to the idea that knowledge amounts to justified true belief sent shock waves around the philosophical world.  Tune in to learn more about Gettier's influential ideas that still garner a great deal of attention today. You can find a copy of Gettier's paper here: https://fitelson.org/proseminar/gettier.pdf Send your thoughts, questions, and ideas for future episodes to: [email protected] Image Attribution: By DaveGettier - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=103656875
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