Journal of Socialomics

Department of Philosophy, Devine Word Seminary, Manila, Philippines

Publications

• Review Article   
  Does Lewi?s Contextualism Effectively Address the Gettier Problem? A Critical Analysis of David Lewis's Epistemic Contextualism
  Author(s): Khanh Trinh*
  
  What makes knowledge possible? Can we be sure that the things we believe are true? Traditional epistemologists see knowledge as Justified True Belief (JTB). However, this theory has a severe problem, which Edmund Gettier pointed out and challenged in his three-page articles about the traditional analysis of knowledge in 1963. Contextualists with regard to knowledge argue that the truth of the claim 'S knows that P' is contextually dependent is one of the solutions that many philosophers propose to solve the problems in Gettier's cases. Among them, David Lewis, in his paper Elusive Knowledge, proposes a solution to the Gettier problem with the rules of relevance. In this paper, Khanh Trinh will attempt to investigate whether Lewis’s contextualism can offer a satisfactory explanation of Gettier's scenarios. In the first part, Khanh Trinh will provide a concise.. View more»
  

  DOI: 10.35248/2155-9627.23.12.224

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