{"id":4059,"date":"2018-07-10T16:12:04","date_gmt":"2018-07-10T15:12:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/arche\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;eventDate=2019-05-07#038;p=4053"},"modified":"2019-05-03T14:40:42","modified_gmt":"2019-05-03T13:40:42","slug":"conceptual-engineering-seminar-2-2019-05-07","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/arche\/event\/conceptual-engineering-seminar-2-2019-05-07\/","title":{"rendered":"Conceptual Engineering Seminar: Peter Hawke &amp; Tom Schoonen (Amsterdam) on &#8220;Are Gettier cases disturbing?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Abstract<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We contrast prominent naturalistic lines of research on the traditional method of cases (MoC), exemplified by\u00a0Williamson\u00a0(2007) and\u00a0Machery\u00a0(2017). Both philosophers hold that MoC is best described in\u00a0fallibilist,\u00a0non-exceptionalist\u00a0terms that accommodate\u00a0moderate modal skepticism. However, Gettier cases showcase a key dispute. Williamson claims these typically induce cogent reasoning that strongly supports the \u2018Gettier judgment\u2019 (knowledge is not justified true belief). Machery claims MoC should be abandoned entirely, on grounds of unreliability. Naturalists should side, we argue, with Williamson. We find no compelling reason to worry about the reliability of the Gettier judgment: the data accrued by experimental philosophers does not license this worry; Gettier cases need not exhibit \u2018disturbing characteristics\u2019 that explain why philosophical thought experiments sometimes induce dubious judgments; and Williamson offers a promising naturalistic account of how Gettier-reasoning yields knowledge. We conclude that disciplined uses of MoC plausibly produce knowledge that is naturalistically explicable and philosophically profound. Machery\u2019s severe conclusion, and its supporting argument, are thereby placed in doubt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abstract We contrast prominent naturalistic lines of research on the traditional method of cases (MoC), exemplified by\u00a0Williamson\u00a0(2007) and\u00a0Machery\u00a0(2017). Both philosophers hold that MoC is best&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","_tribe_events_is_hybrid":"","_tribe_events_is_virtual":"","_tribe_events_virtual_video_source":"","_tribe_events_virtual_embed_video":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button_text":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_at":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_to":[],"_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_event":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_views":"","_tribe_events_virtual_url":"","footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[],"class_list":["post-4059","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/arche\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/4059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/arche\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/arche\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/arche\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/arche\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/4059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4816,"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/arche\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/4059\/revisions\/4816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/arche\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/arche\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4059"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/arche\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=4059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}