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Thirty-Eighth | The Strange Case of Gettier
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2023-03-12
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Edmund Gettier was a professor whose university pressured him to publish despite his limited output. To meet publication expectations, he wrote a brief three-page article that inadvertently sparked a major epistemological crisis. For two millennia, philosophers defined knowledge Read more…Edmund Gettier was a professor whose university pressured him to publish despite his limited output. To meet publication expectations, he wrote a brief three-page article that inadvertently sparked a major epistemological crisis. For two millennia, philosophers defined knowledge as justified true belief. Gettier's counterexamples challenged this foundational definition, revealing it wasn't as self-evident as assumed. This episode explores how a reluctant publication reshaped epistemology and why the Gettier problem remains central to philosophical discourse on knowledge today. Close