“Absent Contrary Indication”: On a Pernicious Form of Epistemic Luck, and its Epistemic Agency Antidote

Abstract It is widely accepted that knowledge incompatible with the presence of non-neutralized defeaters. A common way addressing this issue to introduce a condition effect there are no defeaters for belief p (i.e. “no-defeaters condition”). I argue meeting leaves open possibility squander our knowledge. The no-defeaters can be fortuitously met, and as result it met luckily. shall kind luck inconsistent In order prevent pernicious form “defeaters-responsiveness” condition, according which subjects ought disposed adequately address if they were arise (even in fact do not arise).