Explaining Knowledge New Essays on the Gettier Problem

includes index and biblioraphy

Part 1. Solving the gettier problem 1. Gettiered belief .....15 2 The nature of knowledge .....35 3. Knowledge, luck and virtue: Resolving the gettier problem ....57 4. Perceptual capacities, knowledge, and gettier cases ......74 5. Chained to the gettier problem - a useful falsehood .....96 6. Accident, evidence, and knowledge ......117 Part II. The gettier legacy 7 Sed ubi socrates currit? on the gettier problem before gettier ......135 8. Lessons from gettier ......152 9. Defeasible reasonong and representation: The lesson of gettier .....169 10. The lesson of gettier .......179 Part III Gettier and philosophical methodology 11The gettier case and intuition .....191 12. Gettier and the epistemic appraisal of philosophical intuition .....213 13 The metaphysical gettier problem and the X-phi critique .....231 14 Gettier cases: A Taxonomy .....242 15. Knowledge, Noise and curve-fitting: A methodological argument for justified true relief .......253 Part IV. Gettier and inferential knowledge 16. Inferential knowledge and the gettier coniecture ....273 17. Knowledge, Benign falsehoods and the gettier problem .....292 18. Closure, Counter-closure, and inferential knowledge .....312 19. Knowledge and false belief .....325 Part V. Dissolving the gettier problem 20. Golden gettier: What we (should have) learned .....345 21. The value of knowledge and the gettier game ......355 22. Gettier cases: Transworld identity and counterparts .....366 23. The difference between knowledge and understanding ......384