Ep. 3: Gettier Problems - A Squishy Dodge
An episode of the You've Got It All Wrong podcast, hosted by Thought Experiment Media, titled "Ep. 3: Gettier Problems - A Squishy Dodge" was published on June 22, 2015 and runs 52 minutes.
June 22, 2015 ·52m · You've Got It All Wrong
Episode Description
The traditional definition of “knowledge,” first put forward by Plato, is a “justified, true belief.” That definition stuck for a few thousand years until Edmund Gettier wrote a famous paper in 1963. The eponymous “Gettier problems” outlined in the paper threw a wrench in the works for the field of epistemology, and philosophers have been trying to get things back on track ever since. In this episode we review some examples of Gettier problems and try to come up with our own responses. We also take a look at how elephants, Bruce Lee, Doctor Who, and Donald Rumsfeld help us understand h...
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