Publication Type
Journal Article
Version
publishedVersion
Publication Date
9-2017
Abstract
NeilSinhababu and I presented Backward Clock,an original counterexample to Robert Nozick’s truth-tracking analysis ofpropositional knowledge In theirlatest defence of the truth-tracking theories, “Methods Matter: Beating the BackwardClock,” Fred Adams, John A. Barker and Murray Clarke try again defend Nozick’s and FredDretske’s early analysis of propositional knowledge against Backward Clock. They allege failure oftruth-adherence, mistakes on my part about methods and appeal to charity,‘equivocation’, reliable methods and unfair internalism. I argue that theseobjections all fail. They are still stuck with the fact that thetracking theories fall to Backward Clock,an even more useful test case for other analyses of knowledge than might havefirst appeared.
Keywords
Sensitive belief, Extra-sensitive belief, Sensitive methods, Truth-adherence, Reliable methods, Backward Clock
Discipline
Philosophy
Research Areas
Humanities
Publication
Logos and Episteme: An International Journal of Epistemology
Volume
8
Issue
2
First Page
243
Last Page
269
ISSN
2069-0533
Identifier
10.5840/logos-episteme20178219
Publisher
Institutul European
Citation
WILLIAMS, John Nicholas.(2017). Still stuck on the Backward Clock: A rejoinder to Clarke, Adams and Barker. Logos and Episteme: An International Journal of Epistemology, 8(2), 243-269.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/2429
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Additional URL
https://doi.org/10.5840/logos-episteme20178219