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HomeUpcoming EventsJake Ross (USC): Knowledge, Safety, and Meta-Epistemic Beliefs
Jake Ross (USC): Knowledge, Safety, and Meta-Epistemic Beliefs

I explore puzzles raised by what we may call meta-epistemic beliefs, or beliefs about the epistemic status of one's own beliefs.  I argue that such beliefs raise problems for a number of popular accounts of knowledge.  In particular, they suggest that safety is neither necessary nor sufficient for knowledge, and that most of the accounts of knowledge of the form JTB + X must be rejected.  I then consider what kind of conception of knowledge could resolve these problems.

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  • Thu 11 Aug 2016, 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

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Coombs Seminar Room A

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Philosophy Departmental Seminars