Ep. 344: Gettier and Goldman on Justified True Belief (Part One)
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
Mark Linsenmayer
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🗓️ 23 June 2024
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
On "Is Justified True Belief Knowledge?" (1963) by Edmund Gettier, "What Is Justified Belief?" (1979) by Alvin Goldman, and "The Inescapability of Gettier Problems" (1994) by Linda Zagzebski.
What is knowledge? Even if a belief is true and justified, does that make it knowledge? Gettier came up with exceptions, and other philosophers tried to figure out how to revise "justification" to rule these out.
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| 0:00.0 | Please consider purchasing the new partially examined life book, |
| 0:03.1 | a breezy read and excellent momento the ideal gift. |
| 0:06.8 | Learn more at partially examined life.com. |
| 0:09.6 | Book. You're listening to the partially examined life, a podcast by some guys where at one point |
| 0:21.5 | said on doing philosophy for a living but then thought |
| 0:23.7 | better of it. Our questions for episode 344 are what is knowledge and what is |
| 0:29.6 | justification when it comes to beliefs. We read some articles |
| 0:33.0 | Is Justified True Belief Knowledge by Edmund Gettyaire from 1963? |
| 0:38.0 | What is Justified Belief by Alvin Goldman from 1979 |
| 0:41.0 | and the inescapability of Get Here Problems by Linda Zexebsky from |
| 0:46.5 | 1994. We also read the Stanford Encyclopedia article entry on Reliabilityism by Owen Goldman and Bob Bedor from 2021. |
| 0:55.0 | More information about these articles and the podcast, please see |
| 0:58.0 | PartialexamineLife.com. |
| 1:00.0 | This is Mark Linton Meyer, self-presenting in Madison, Wisconsin. |
| 1:04.0 | This is Seth Paskin, sure that he is in Austin, Texas via his perfectly reliable clavroance faculty. |
| 1:10.5 | This is Westallin, correct only by chance in Cambridge, Massachusetts. |
| 1:16.0 | This is Dylan Casey wondering where the degrees of certainty are in Madison, Wisconsin. |
| 1:21.0 | All right, so we had this Getty-Eur article, |
| 1:24.3 | which is three pages long. |
| 1:26.2 | By the way, do we know, is it Getty-E a or Getty-Eur? |
| 1:29.2 | Just on videos, people were calling them Getty. |
| 1:31.4 | Okay. |
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