Knowledge and the Gettier Problem

Table of Contents

Part I. Introducing Gettierism:
1.1. The year of Gettier
1.2. Gettierism introduced
1.3. Gettier cases introduced
1.4. Gettierism refined
1.5. Gettierism finalised: individual-Gettierism versus property-Gettierism
1.6. Gettieristic responses to Gettier cases
1.7. Supporting Gettierism
Part II. Explicating Gettierism: A General Challenge:
2.1. Introduction
2.2. The fallibilism underlying Gettierism
2.3. A general anti-Gettierism argument
2.3.1. The strategy
2.3.2. The argument
2.3.3. Objection: merely definitional?
Part III. Explicating Gettierism: A Case Study:
3.1. Introduction
3.2 Veritic luck
3.3. The argument
3.4. The argument, more metaphysically
3.5. An alternative Gettieristic interpretation of safety?
3.6. Belief-forming methods
3.7. The backward clock
3.8. The anti-luck intuition supplanted
Part IV. Explicating Gettierism: Modality and Properties:
4.1. Introduction
4.2. Objection: modal fallacy?
4.2.1. The objection
4.2.2. The property of being Gettiered
4.2.3. Property preclusion
4.2.4. Predicates for the property of being Gettiered
4.2.5. Property analysis
4.3. Objection: another modal fallacy?
4.3.1. The objection
4.3.2. The objection's failure
4.3.3. Individual-Gettierism versus property-Gettierism, again
Part V. Explicating Gettierism: Infallibility Presuppositions:
5.1. A question
5.2. Some Gettieristic reasoning
5.3. Realistic possibilities?
5.4. A case study: virtue-theoretic manifestation
5.4.1. Sosa/Turri's Gettieristic proposal
5.4.2. Fallibilism within Gettier's challenge
5.4.3. Turri's unwitting infallibilism
5.4.4. A methodological moral
5.4.5. Manifestation clarified
5.5. Conclusion
Part VI. Gettierism and its Intuitions:
6.1. Intuitive support?
6.2. Gettier's fallibilism, again
6.3. A methodological moral, again
6.4. A methodological question about Gettieristic assessments
6.5. A methodological problem for Gettieristic assessments
6.6. An objection and two replies
6.7. Conclusion
Part VII. Gettierism Improved:
7.1. A compatibilist aim
7.2. An old-fashioned account of not being Gettiered
7.2.1. An internalist condition
7.2.2. A fallibilist condition
7.2.3. A non-reductive condition
7.3. A non-reductive justified-true-belief conception of knowledge.

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