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The Power of Nonviolence (Classic Philosophical Arguments)

A survey of more than fifty years of debate over what knowledge really is.
Reading guide
This is a single standalone volume. The chapters are arranged in sequence, so read them from the beginning to follow the development of the debate.
The book begins with Gettier's 1963 challenge to the idea that knowledge is justified true belief. It then traces how philosophers have responded through concepts such as fallibility, evidence, reliability and luck, before turning to questions of method and where the debate might go next.

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In 1963 Edmund Gettier published a short paper with an outsized effect. It suggested that a belief can be justified and true and still fall short of knowledge. More than fifty years later, philosophers have yet to agree on what is missing.

Stephen Hetherington, a leading voice in epistemology, sets out the debate in a sequence of clear, distinctive chapters. The book covers fallibility, evidence, reliability, truth-tracking, context, luck, intellectual virtue and wisdom, along with questions of method such as intuition, conceptual analysis, experimental philosophy and explication. It suits students meeting the problem for the first time and experienced philosophers who want the whole argument mapped in one place.

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