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EPISTEMOLOGY / READING THREAD
What makes belief knowledge?
Epistemology studies when belief becomes knowledge and who is treated as credible. It reaches from individual justification to testimony, institutions, technology, and epistemic injustice.
THREE STARTING QUESTIONS
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Why is a lucky true belief not knowledge?
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What reasons do we need to trust testimony?
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How do algorithms and institutions distribute credibility?
Key ThinkersDescartesHumeKantMiranda Fricker
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What Does Knowing Add to Believing?
Using the Gettier problem as an entry point, this article compares reliabilism, virtue epistemology, and contextualism as accounts of the normativity of knowledge.
Can Trusting Others Give Us Knowledge?
This entry examines how testimony transmits knowledge and how identity prejudice, institutional authority, and platforms distribute credibility.