LEWIS’S CONTEXTUAL SOLUTION TO THE LOTTERY PARADOX AND THE GETTIER PROBLEM Cover Image

LUISOVO KONTEKSTUALISTIČKO REŠENJE PARADOKSA LUTRIJE I GETIJEOVSKOG PROBLEMA
LEWIS’S CONTEXTUAL SOLUTION TO THE LOTTERY PARADOX AND THE GETTIER PROBLEM

Author(s): Marija Reković
Subject(s): Epistemology, Logic, Contemporary Philosophy, Analytic Philosophy
Published by: Filozofsko društvo Srbije
Keywords: conversational contextualism; skepticism; the Gettier problem; the Lottery paradox; rule of resemblance;

Summary/Abstract: The main topic of this paper is conversational contextualism, one of the most dominant versions of epistemic contextualism, endorsed by David Lewis. Proponents of conversational contextualism, including Lewis, argue that the key advantage of this view lies in its unique way of analyzing and solving the most prominent epistemological problems. Among those problems are the skeptical paradox, the Gettier problem and the Lottery paradox.The first part of the paper is concerned with the general features of conversational contextualism. In the second part of the paper the author highlights the main hypotheses of conversational contextualism, proposed by Lewis, as an attempt to solve the Gettier problem and the Lottery paradox. The last part of the paper analyzes the pros and cons of the Lewisian solutions to the aforementioned problems. The key part in that analysis is the Cohen’s criticism of those solutions.

  • Issue Year: 61/2018
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 39-51
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Serbian