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The safety conception of knowledge
Hawthorne, John Patrick Dietz, Christina
Hawthorne, John Patrick
Dietz, Christina
Abstract
The so-called safety conception of knowledge enjoys considerable popularity, but there are important choice points when it comes to its articulation and deployment. This chapter explores a number of them and also make vivid some important challenges to various versions of the safety approach. Since Williamson’s work on safety has heavily influenced our own thinking, section 1 presents some key facets of his presentation of safety; section 2 presents five important choice points for the safety theorist; section 3 discusses an important issue concerning methodological orientation that turns on the difference between analysis and model-building.
Keywords
externalism, knowledge, safety, methods, counterparts, closeness, analysis, philosophical modeling
Date
2023
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Book chapter
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Externalism about Knowledge
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Page Range
150-185
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Dianoia Institute of Philosophy
Faculty of Theology and Philosophy
Faculty of Theology and Philosophy
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© Several Contributors 2023. The moral rights of the author have been asserted. All rights reserved.