Gettierized Knobe Effects
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We report experimental results showing that participants are surprisingly likely to attribute knowledge in familiar Gettier cases and are often even more likely to do so when the believers in question are engaging in harmful or blameworthy acts. Our experiments bring together important elements from the Gettier case literature in epistemology and the Knobe effect literature in experimental philosophy and reveal several respects in which folk conceptions of knowledge and philosophical conceptions of knowledge diverge in ways that epistemologists would not have predicted. keywords: Knobe effect, Gettier problem, experimental philosophy, experimental epistemology
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