Deakin Philosophy Seminar: Nevin Climenhaga, 16 March, 3.30pm

DEAKIN PHILOSOPHY SEMINAR SERIES

Time: Mar 16, 2021 03:30 PM Canberra, Melbourne, Sydney on Zoom (details below)

Dr Nevin Climenhaga (ACU): “A Cumulative Case Argument for Infallibilism.”

I present a cumulative case for an infallibilist theory of knowledge, according to which we know all and only those propositions that are certain for us. I argue that this theory can easily explain the truth of eight plausible claims about knowledge:

• There is a qualitative difference between knowledge and non-knowledge.
• Knowledge is valuable in a way that non-knowledge is not.
• Subjects in Gettier cases do not have knowledge.
• If S knows that P, P is part of S’s evidence.
• If S knows that P, ~P is epistemically impossible for S.
• If S knows that P, S can rationally act as if P.
• If S knows that P, S can rationally stop inquiring whether P.
• If S knows each of {P₁, P₂, … P_n}, and competently deduces Q from these propositions, S knows that Q.

I then argue that the skeptical costs of this theory are outweighed by its explanatory power.

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Associate Professor George Duke

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