Philosopher
Edmund Gettier
Overview
Edmund Lee Gettier III ( GET-ee-er; October 31, 1927 – March 23, 2021) was an American philosopher at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He is best known for his article written in 1963: "Is Justified True Belief Knowledge?", which has generated an extensive philosophical literature trying to respond to what became known as the Gettier problem.
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Philosophers who discussed Edmund Gettier
Ideas Edmund Gettier discusses
- Belief
- Philosophy
- Western philosophy
- Counterexample
- Bachelor of Arts
- Analytic philosophy
- The Review of Metaphysics
- East Asia
- Doctor of Philosophy
- Western world
- Plato
- University of Pittsburgh
- Knowledge
- Gettier problem
- Robert Nozick
- Johns Hopkins University
- Roderick Chisholm
- Bertrand Russell
- C. I. Lewis
- The Philosophical Review
- Cultural relativism
- Theaetetus (dialogue)
- Colin McGinn
- Norman Malcolm
Place in the tradition
Part of American philosophy.