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January 14, 2012epistemic luck, epistemology, Gettier, relying on others, sandy goldberg

Safety, Luck, and Gettierization

Sandy Goldberg gave an excellent talk yesterday. I’m looking forward to seeing some version of this coming out as a fully-fledged paper. Sandy is of course referring to one of the most famous papers in post-War philosophy. Abstract. According to the widely-endorsed safety condition on knowledge, S knows that p only if: not easily would…

September 1, 2010cognition, cognitive science, duncan prichard, epistemic luck, epistemic virtue, epistemology, extended mind, externalism, philosophy of mind, social epistemology

Cognitive ability and the extended cognition thesis

Here’s a just published paper by Duncan Pritchard in Synthese. It’s reassuring to see epistemologists picking up on the extended mind thesis – the other notable epistemologist pursuing this line is Sandy Goldberg. This is the way things are going – I for one am working on a project that will be a major push in…