Open AccessWeighing Solutions to the Lottery Puzzle
Author(s) -
Mark Bowker
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
stance
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1943-1899
pISSN - 1943-1880
DOI - 10.33043/s.3.1.25-32
Subject(s) - lottery , skepticism , competence (human resources) , epistemology , psychology , philosophy , social psychology , economics , microeconomics
The lottery puzzle can elicit strong intuitions in favour of skepticism, according to which we ordinary language-users speak falsely about knowledge with shocking regularity. Various contextualist and invariantist responses to the puzzle attempt to avoid this unwelcome result and preserve the competence of ordinary speakers. I will argue that these solutions can be successful only if they respect intuitions of a certain kind, and proceed to judge competing solutions by this criterion.