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

Additional URL

https://doi.org/10.5840/logos-episteme20178219

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