Day 3: The Analysis of Knowledge

•     Three Types of Knowledge

•     Three Types of Justification

•     The Analysis of Knowledge

•     The “Traditional” Analysis

•     The Gettier Critique

•     Read IE, pp. 69-75

Three Types of Knowledge

•    What is propositional knowledge?

•    What is procedural or capacity or skill knowledge?

•    What is knowledge by acquaintance ?

Three Types of Justification

•    What is veritable justification?

•    What is consequential (or pragmatic) justification?

•    What is epistemic justification?

The Analysis of Knowledge

•    Which type of knowledge have epistemologists traditionally tried to define or analyse?

•    What sort of analysis have epistemologists traditionally looked for?

The “Traditional” Analysis

•    S knows that p if, and only if,

  (1) S believes p;

  (2) p is true, and

  (3) S is justified in believing p.

The Gettier Critique

•    Gettier’s examples

•    Some other examples

•    Do these examples undermine the account of knowledge given in the Meno?