How infallibilists can have it all
Journal article
Climenhaga, Nevin. (2023). How infallibilists can have it all. Monist: an international quarterly of general philosophical inquiry. 106(4), pp. 363-380. https://doi.org/10.1093/monist/onad020
Authors | Climenhaga, Nevin |
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Abstract | I advance a novel argument for an infallibilist theory of knowledge, according to which we know all and only those propositions that are certain for us. I argue that this theory lets us reconcile major extant theories of knowledge, in the following sense: for any of these theories, if we require that its central condition (evidential support, reliability, safety, etc.) obtains to a maximal degree, we get a theory of knowledge extensionally equivalent to infallibilism. As such, the infallibilist can affirm that, when their conditions are suitably interpreted, most post-Gettier theories of knowledge offer necessary and sufficient conditions for knowledge. The infallibilist can thus reconcile major theories of knowledge, and is in a better position to explain the intuitive appeal of these theories than the fallibilist who only accepts one of them, and rejects the rest. |
Keywords | infallibilist theory of knowledge |
Year | 01 Jan 2023 |
Journal | Monist: an international quarterly of general philosophical inquiry |
Journal citation | 106 (4), pp. 363-380 |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
ISSN | 0026-9662 |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1093/monist/onad020 |
Web address (URL) | https://academic.oup.com/monist/article/106/4/363/7319399 |
Open access | Open access |
Research or scholarly | Research |
Page range | 363-380 |
Publisher's version | License File Access Level Open |
Output status | Published |
Publication dates | |
Online | 17 Oct 2023 |
Publication process dates | |
Accepted | 2023 |
Deposited | 05 Jul 2024 |
Additional information | © The Author(s), 2023. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Monist |
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License | |
Place of publication | United States |
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