Two New Counterexamples to the Truth-Tracking Theory of Knowledge

Logos and Episteme 6 (3):309-311 (2015)
  Copy   BIBTEX

Abstract

I present two counterexamples to the recently back-in-favour truth-tracking account of knowledge: one involving a true belief resting on a counterfactually robust delusion, one involving a true belief acquired alongside a bunch of false beliefs. These counterexamples carry over to a recent modification of the theory due to Briggs and Nolan (2012), and seem invulnerable to a recent defence of the theory against known counterexamples, by Adams and Clarke (2005).

Similar books and articles

Resurrecting the tracking theories.Fred Adams & Murray Clarke - 2005 - Australasian Journal of Philosophy 83 (2):207 – 221.
Recursive tracking versus process reliabilism.Alvin I. Goldman - 2009 - Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 79 (1):223-230.
Perceptual knowledge derailed.Jonathan Schaffer - 2003 - Philosophical Studies 112 (1):31-45.
Tracking truth: knowledge, evidence, and science.Sherrilyn Roush - 2005 - New York: Oxford University Press.
Defending the Tracking Theories of Knowledge.Fred Adams & Murray Clarke - 2007 - The Proceedings of the Twenty-First World Congress of Philosophy 6:3-8.
Conditions of Knowledge.Herlinde Studer - 1981 - Grazer Philosophische Studien 14 (1):97-111.
Knowledge Norms and Assessing Them Well.Dustin Locke - 2014 - Thought: A Journal of Philosophy 3 (1):80-89.
Factivity Without Safety.Dennis Whitcomb - 2008 - Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 89 (1):143-149.
Factivity without safety.By Dennis Whitcomb - 2008 - Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 89 (1):143–149.

Analytics

Added to PP
2015-09-09

Downloads
1,787 (#5,192)

6 months
217 (#11,208)

Historical graph of downloads
How can I increase my downloads?

Author's Profile

Tristan Grøtvedt Haze
University of Melbourne

References found in this work

Philosophical explanations.Robert Nozick - 1981 - Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.
Resurrecting the tracking theories.Fred Adams & Murray Clarke - 2005 - Australasian Journal of Philosophy 83 (2):207 – 221.

Add more references