Biology and Gettier’s Paradox
| Autor: | Gonzalo Munévar |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
| Předmět: |
intrinsic learning
gettier’s paradox 05 social sciences B1-5802 Biology non-linguistic knowledge 050105 experimental psychology Epistemology neural nets justified true belief 0502 economics and business 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Philosophy (General) 050203 business & management Mathematics |
| Zdroj: | Studia Humana, Vol 8, Iss 1, Pp 93-98 (2019) |
| ISSN: | 2299-0518 |
| DOI: | 10.2478/sh-2019-0007 |
| Popis: | Gettier’s Paradox is considered a most critical problem for the presumably obvious philosophical view that knowledge is justified true belief. Such a view of knowledge, however, exposes the poverty of analytic philosophy. It wrongly assumes, for example, that knowledge must be conscious and explicit, and, to make matters worse, linguistic, as illustrated in Donald Davidson’s writings. To show why this philosophical view is wrong I will point to arguments by Ruth Barcan Marcus and, principally, Paul Churchland, as well as to work by the neuroscientist Paul Reber on intuitive knowledge. We will see, then, that much of our knowledge is neither explicit nor conscious, let alone linguistic. I will suggest that an approach that pays attention to biology is more likely to succeed in developing a proper account of our cognitive abilities. Thus, Gettier’s paradox becomes a mere curiosity. |
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