Justification, knowledge, and normality

Justification and evidence - based knowledge

Poncelet Laboratory UMI 2615 of CNRS and Independent University of Moscow

justification and analysis of knowledge

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Justification Logics with Common Knowledge

The transmission of knowledge and justification

Those working in the epistemology of testimony seek to give an account of how it is that we can form justified beliefs by believing what people say. The basic idea behind transmission theories in the epistemology of testimony is that if I know that φ, I can use testimony to transmit my knowledge to you and you can thus come to acquire my knowledge that φ. Tyler Burge (1993; 1997; 2013), Paul Fa...

Knowledge, Justification, and Reason-Based Belief

Is knowledge definable as justified true belief (“JTB”)? We argue that one can legitimately answer positively or negatively, depending on how the notion of justification is understood. To facilitate our argument, we introduce a simple propositional logic of reason-based belief. We show that this logic is sufficiently flexible to accommodate various useful features, including quantification over...