Gettier Problems, Sample of Essays.
The Gettier problem and counter-examples enable people to understand that the standard account of knowledge as a justified true belief is not refutable. Knowledge is a complex aspect that requires experience, contact, objectivity, and purpose to understand it.
The Gettier Problem challenged this with two counter examples showing that some have justified true belief and do not know it, proving the JTB argument to be inadequate. Some have rejected these “Gettier Cases” while some have sought to transition from JTB to the Gettier Problem outlook.
These Gettier cases are counter-examples to the classical analysis of knowledge. A counter-example is 1) an exception that makes a belief or statement false and 2) a case that makes an argument invalid (Mason, “Quiz 2”). So what deems a situation a “Gettier case?”.
Is Justified True Belief Knowledge? EDMUND GETTIER Edmund Gettier is Professor Emeritus at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. This short piece, published in 1963, seemed to many decisively to refute an otherwise attractive analysis of knowledge. It stimulated a renewed effort, still ongoing, to clarify exactly what knowledge comprises.
Gettier and Goldman on Epistemology “Gettier and Goldman didn’t change epistemology. Goldman’s account still continues the same old debates about justification.” Epistemology is the philosophical examination of the nature of knowledge, and though the question of knowledge may not be yet answered, philosophers are still concerned with it and have tried to find an explanation for it.
The Gettier examples are supposed to show that JTB is not an adequate analysis of knowledge, because it is possible to have JTB (as in the Gettier examples) and yet not have knowledge (because it would be ridiculous to have knowledge in the Gettier cases).
In this chapter, we shall consider some counter-examples to the justified true belief (JTB) account and consider some attempts to repair the definition of knowledge in light of these examples. The objection we shall first consider was made prominent by Edmund Gettier in his brief, yet famous, 1963 essay “Is Justified True Belief Knowledge.”.