Reflection: What You Think You Know

Prompts to consider

• Pick three things you believe confidently. For each, identify whether your justification is primarily perceptual, inferential, or testimonial. For the testimonial ones, how far back does the chain of trust go before you hit something you verified directly?
• The Gettier problem shows that even perfectly justified true beliefs can be 'accidental' in the wrong way. Has there been a time when you turned out to be right for the wrong reasons, when your evidence was solid but actually tracking something different from what made you correct? What does that feel like epistemically?
• Miranda Fricker argues that testimonial injustice wrongs people as knowers, not just as persons. Think of a context in your life where someone's testimony was taken less seriously because of who they were rather than what they said. What would it mean to take epistemic injustice as seriously as other forms of injustice?