La truthmaker solution dei problemi di Gettier

Journal title EPISTEMOLOGIA
Author/s Alessandro Giordani
Publishing Year 2015 Issue 2015/1
Language English Pages 13 P. 68-80 File size 72 KB
DOI 10.3280/EPIS2015-001005
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A truthmaker solution to the Gettier problems is based on the idea that knowledge can be defined as justified true belief provided that the source of one’s justification is suitably connected with what makes the believed proposition true. Different developments of this basic intuition have been recently criticized on the basis of a series of arguments aiming at showing that no truthmaker theory can allow us to solve Gettier problems, since the very idea underlying such solution is ineffective. In this paper, I discuss the criticism to the truthmaker solution I consider most promising and show how it can be successfully addressed.

Keywords: Epistemology, knowledge analysis, knowledge definition, Gettier problem, justification, truthmaking

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Alessandro Giordani, The truthmaker solution to the gettier problems in "EPISTEMOLOGIA" 1/2015, pp 68-80, DOI: 10.3280/EPIS2015-001005