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Gettier Across Cultures 1
Author(s) -
Machery Edouard,
Stich Stephen,
Rose David,
Chatterjee Amita,
Karasawa Kaori,
Struchiner Noel,
Sirker Smita,
Usui Naoki,
Hashimoto Takaaki
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
noûs
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.574
H-Index - 66
eISSN - 1468-0068
pISSN - 0029-4624
DOI - 10.1111/nous.12110
Subject(s) - intuition , universality (dynamical systems) , epistemology , philosophy , psychology , physics , quantum mechanics
In this article, we present evidence that in four different cultural groups that speak quite different languages (Brazil, India, Japan, and the USA) there are cases of justified true beliefs that are not judged to be cases of knowledge. We hypothesize that this intuitive judgment, which we call “the Gettier intuition,” may be a reflection of an underlying innate and universal core folk epistemology , and we highlight the philosophical significance of its universality.