FACT-TRACKING BELIEF AND THE BACKWARD CLOCK: A REPLY TO ADAMS, BARKER AND CLARKE
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Date
2018-09-08
Authors
WILLIAMS, JOHN
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Manuscrito
Abstract
In “The Backward Clock, Truth-Tracking, and Safety”
(2015), Neil Sinhababu and I gave Backward Clock, a
counterexample to Robert Nozick’s (1981) truth-tracking analysis
of knowledge. In “Knowledge as Fact-Tracking True Belief”
(2017), Fred Adams, John Barker and Murray Clarke propose that
a true belief constitutes knowledge if and only if it is based on
reasons that are sensitive to the fact that makes it true, that is,
reasons that wouldn’t obtain if the belief weren’t true. They argue
that their analysis evades Backward Clock. Here I show that it
doesn’t. Backward Clock likewise shows their analysis to be too
weak. The broader lesson seems to be that Backward Clock tells us
the time is up for purely modal analyses of knowledge....
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Backward Clock, Adams, Barker and Clarke, Sensitivity
Citation
WILLIAMS, JOHN (2018) FACT-TRACKING BELIEF AND THE BACKWARD CLOCK: A REPLY TO ADAMS, BARKER AND CLARKE. Manuscrito.https://doi.org/10.1590/0100-6045.2018.v41n3.jw