Original scientific paper
Tracking without Concessions?
Danilo Šuster
orcid.org/0000-0001-7151-4488
; Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Arts, University of Maribor, Koroška c. 160, 2000 Maribor, Slovenia
Abstract
In the first, shorter part of the paper I point out some problems and potential misunderstandings connected with B. Berčić’s treatment of Nozick’s sensitivity condition for knowledge. In the second part of the paper I offer the condition of modal stability or limited sensitivity as a revision of Nozickian conditions for non-accidental connection between our belief and the truth of our belief. “When it is seriously possible for you to falsely believe that p,” that is a good reason for denying that you know that p. Sensitivity within limits requires that we consider more possible worlds (all within a sphere of serious or relevant possibilities) than classical sensitivity, but not the worlds outside this sphere. The idea of modal stability combines robustness (benefits of safety) with responsiveness to facts (benefits of sensitivity).
Keywords
Modal epistemology; modal stability; Nozick; safety; sensitivity
Hrčak ID:
111955
URI
Publication date:
12.12.2013.
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