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A Defense Of Epistemic Invariantism And Intellectualism, Lucas Lockard
A Defense Of Epistemic Invariantism And Intellectualism, Lucas Lockard
Wayne State University Dissertations
The traditional view of knowledge includes two plausible claims. The first claim is that the truth-conditions required to know some proposition p do not vary. So, for any two subjects who have the same epistemic position regarding p, either both know that p or both do not know that p. An implication of this invariantist position is that any difference in knowledge will be explained by a difference in their epistemic position. The second claim is that only epistemic or ‘truth-conducive’ reasons are relevant to considerations of knowledge. This intellectualist position has recently come under attack from those who argue …