How Do You Know? From JTB to Gettier and Beyond
What can we truly know? Journey through the great debates about knowledge, belief, and justification — from Plato's cave to Descartes' demon to modern skepticism.
Steps
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- Reading· ~11 min
The Gettier Problem: When JTB Fails
How three pages in 1963 upended two thousand years of epistemological consensus.
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- Reading· ~9 min
Beyond the Individual Knower
Social epistemology, testimony, and the limits of individualist models of knowledge.
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- Text Explore· ~8 min
Gettier's Original Cases
Examine the two counterexamples that broke the classical theory of knowledge.
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- Argument Map· ~10 min
From JTB to Reliabilism
Map the post-Gettier field of theories of knowledge.
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- Dialogue· ~10 min
Dialogue: Do You Really Know Anything?
A Socratic dialogue on the foundations and limits of knowledge.
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- Reflection· ~8 min
Reflection: What You Think You Know
Apply epistemology's core questions to your own belief-forming practices.
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