Jonathan Jenkins Ichikawa
Posted in Philosophy on Feb 29th, 2012
Sanford Goldberg has an interesting new argument against mentalist internalism about justification in Analysis. I’m working on committing myself to an internalist approach to justification at the moment; Goldberg’s new paper isn’t enough to force me to reconsider. The master argument of the paper, which Goldberg lays out quite succinctly, is this, which I quote: [...]
Posted in Philosophy on Nov 18th, 2010
A conversation last night with Yuri and Andy helped me to get clearer on the argument I was trying to press in my last post. Here’s the much more succinct way to make the point. It’s an argument against forms of contextualism that put relevant alternatives into the proposition expressed by knowledge attributions. Suppose I’m [...]
Posted in Philosophy on Sep 30th, 2009
I’m teaching a contemporary epistemology course with Yuri to Honours students this year. We started with Linda Zagzebski’s “The Inescapability of Gettier Problems”, which, to my mind, helpfully turns attention away from attempts to analyze knowledge on which students may have spent much of their intro epistemology courses. I read it a few years ago, [...]
Posted in Philosophy on Jun 24th, 2009
Something cool happened in our methodology seminar last week. Some people like to remark on real-world Gettier cases they find themselves in. I found myself last week in the presence of a real-life deviant Gettier case. A deviant Gettier case (what Ben Jarvis and I have also called a ‘bad Gettier case’) is a situation [...]