Etiological proper function and the safety condition
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10814909 |
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| Authors | Dario Mortini (0000-0001-9003-4789, University of Southern Denmark, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 202 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Publication date | 2023-12-12 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Synthese (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0039-7857 • E-ISSN: 1573-0964 |
| Publisher | Springer Science and Business Media LLC (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1007/s11229-023-04412-y |
| OpenAlex | W4389620486 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 71 |
In this paper, I develop and motivate a novel formulation of the safety condition in terms of etiological proper function. After testing this condition against the most pressing objections to safety-theoretic accounts of knowledge in the literature, my conclusion will be the following: once safety is suitably understood in terms of etiological proper function, it stands a better chance as the right anti-Gettier condition on knowledge
Biology · Epistemology · Etiology · Evolutionary biology · Function (biology) · Metaphysics · Pathology · Philosophy of language · Philosophy of science · Clinical Reasoning and Diagnostic Skills · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics · Ethics in medical practice · Medicine · Philosophy
Language, Thought, and Other Biological Categories
Achieving Knowledge
The Unity of Perception
Warrant and Proper Function
Judgment and Agency
Epistemic Explanations
Justification without Awareness
Between Probability and Certainty
Discrimination and Perceptual Knowledge
Alternate Possibilities and Moral Responsibility
Anti-Luck Virtue Epistemology
Epistemic Dependence
Externalist Theories of Empirical Knowledge
Is Justified True Belief Knowledge?
The Oxford Handbook of Skepticism
A Virtue Epistemology
How Competence Matters in Epistemology
Unreasonable Knowledge
Luck, propositional perception, and the Entailment Thesis
Knowledge and normality
Unsafe Knowledge
Why safety doesn’t save closure
Safety in Sosa
A new solution to the safety dilemma
Against global method safety
Global safety
Anti-luck epistemology
Saving safety from counterexamples
Functions
Easy Possibilities
Knowledge Under Threat
Modal Virtue Epistemology
Philosophical Explanations
Knowledge and Subjunctive Conditionals
| Highly cited | No |
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