Knowledge and Subjunctive Conditionals

Philosophy Compass 2 (6):781-791 (2007)
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Abstract

What relation must hold between a fact p and the corresponding belief that p for the belief to amount to knowledge? Many authors have recently proposed that the relation can be captured by subjunctive conditionals. In this paper I critically evaluate the main proposals along those lines

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