McDowell, Gettier, and the bipartite account of perceptual knowledge

Perception (Philosophy);Knowledge, Theory of;McDowell, John Henry;Gettier, Edmund L;Self-knowledge, Theory of

Archer, Adrian Avery ; Wright, Crispin ; Wright, Crispin

University:University of St Andrews

Department:Philosophical, Anthropological & Film Studies (School of)

关键词: Perception (Philosophy);    Knowledge, Theory of;    McDowell, John Henry;    Gettier, Edmund L;    Self-knowledge, Theory of;   

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【 摘 要 】

In his essay, “Knowledge and the Internal Revisited”, John McDowell claims that “seeing that p constitutes false-hood excluding justification for believing that p.”In this thesis I attempt to construct an account of perceptual knowledge that exploits McDowell’s notion of false-hood excluding justification.To this end, I limn a justified (strong) belief, or bipartite, account of perceptual knowledge in which justification is seen as factive.On this picture, the truth requirement of the traditional tripartite account is incorporated into the justification condition for knowledge.My account of perceptual knowledge is McDowellian in spirit, but not in detail.Specifically, I part ways with McDowell in my insistence that knowledge should be seen as a composite rather than primitive concept in which belief, understood as commitment to the truth of a proposition, and justification, understood as the possession of a factive reason, both figure.