Fallibilism: evidence and knowledge

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Fallibilists claim that one can know a proposition on the basis of evidence that supports it even if the evidence doesn't guarantee its truth. Jessica Brown offers a compelling defence of this view against infallibilists, who claim that it is contradictory to claim to know and yet to admit the possibility of error.

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Full title :Fallibilism : evidence and knowledge / Jessica Brown.

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Publication Date:©2018
Edition:First edition

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
Place of Publication:Oxford
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2018

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Description:xii, 197 pages ; : 23 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780198801771, 0198801777
oclc:on1007078171
LC Classification:BC171
Dewey Decimal:121/.65

Human fallibility and fallibilism about knowledge -- The evidential commitments of infallibism -- Infallibism and evidential support -- The knowledge view of justification and excuse -- Closure and defeat -- Undermining defeat -- Knowledge, chance, and practical reasoning -- Conclusion.