The Backward Clock, Truth-Tracking, and Safety

Journal of Philosophy 112 (1):46-55 (2015)
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Abstract

We present Backward Clock, an original counterexample to Robert Nozick’s truth-tracking analysis of propositional knowledge, which works differently from other putative counterexamples and avoids objections to which they are vulnerable. We then argue that four ways of analysing knowledge in terms of safety, including Duncan Pritchard’s, cannot withstand Backward Clock either.

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John N. Williams
Singapore Management University
Neil Sinhababu
National University of Singapore

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Resurrecting the tracking theories.Fred Adams & Murray Clarke - 2005 - Australasian Journal of Philosophy 83 (2):207 – 221.

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