Publications and Research
Document Type
Book Chapter or Section
Publication Date
2017
Abstract
We examine the relationship between the justified true belief (JTB) account of knowledge and Plato’s theory about it as expounded in the Theaetetus. Considering Socrates’ remarks in the Theaetetus brings us to some concerns raised by Turing and to Wittgenstein’s famous comment explanations come to an end somewhere. We present two simple technical results which bear on the question. Finally, we look at the pragmatic aspects of knowledge attributions. In an Appendix we say a few words about Indian epistemology and Gettier problems.
Comments
This is the author's accepted manuscript of a book chapter originally published in Philosophical Explorations of the Legacy of Alan Turing: Turing 100, available at https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53280-6_4.