Tracking , Reliabilism , and Possible Worlds
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Robert Nozick’s tracking account of knowledge is defended against Colin McGinn’s criticisms by drawing on David Deutsch’s ’multiverse’ conception of possible worlds. Knowledge on the tracking account requires a ’method’ or ’way’ of believing. Exploiting this feature undercuts the apparent force of McGinn’s counter-examples. This essay focuses on Colin McGinn’s critique in Knowledge and Reality of Robert Nozick’s tracking account of knowledge in Philosophical Explanations. Nozick offers a crisp portable statement of the tracking theory as follows, where S is some knowing subject and p is some proposition known.
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