Linguistique de l’écrit

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Knowledge's boundary problem

Stephen Hetherington

pp. 41-56

Résumé

Where is the justificatory boundary between a true belief’s not being knowledge and its being knowledge? Even if we put to one side the Gettier problem, this remains a fundamental epistemological question, concerning as it does the matter of whether we can provide some significant defence of the usual epistemological assumption that a belief is knowledge only if it is well justified. But can that question be answered non-arbitrarily? BonJour believes that it cannot be – and that epistemology should therefore abandon the concept of knowledge. More optimistically, this paper does attempt to answer that question, by applying – and thereby refining – a non-absolutist theory of knowledge.

Détails de la publication

Publié dans:

(2006) Synthese 150 (1).

Pages: 41-56

DOI: 10.1007/s11229-004-6255-x

Citation complète:

Hetherington Stephen, 2006, Knowledge's boundary problem. Synthese 150 (1), 41-56. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-004-6255-x.