Is Justified True Belief Knowledge?

  • Edmund L. Gettier University of Massachusetts Amherst, EUA
  • Paulo Vélez León Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja – UTPL, Ecuador
Keywords: Knowledge, Belief, True, Virtue Epistemology, Theory of justification

Abstract

In this brief text, a bilingual edition of Is Justified True Belief Knowledge?, (1963) by Edmund L. Gettier, some counterexamples are presented to the definition of «knowledge» as «justified true belief».

Author Biographies

Edmund L. Gettier, University of Massachusetts Amherst, EUA

Edmund L. Gettier III is Professor Emeritus at the Department of Philosophy of the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. PhD in Philosophy at the Cornell University.

Paulo Vélez León, Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja – UTPL, Ecuador

PAULO VÉLEZ LEÓN is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja. His main research areas are theoretical philosophy (metaphysics, theory of knowledge and anthropology), axiology (aesthetics) and the history of thought and science, especially the hispanic medieval thought. He took part in many research projects, and collaborates with many research groups. He also studied at the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC). He published, in his research areas, many articles in journals and academic proceedings.

Published
2013-12-20
How to Cite
[1]
Gettier, E.L. and Vélez León, P. 2013. Is Justified True Belief Knowledge?. Disputatio. 2, 3 (Dec. 2013), 185-193.
Issue
Vol. 2 No. 3 (2013)
Section
Articles and Essays

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