Are modal conditions necessary for knowledge?

• Main Author: Dacela, Mark Anthony L.
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2019
• Subjects: Gettier problem; Epistemic logic; Sensitivity (Personality trait); Human security; Philosophy
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/faculty_research/3377; https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/context/faculty_research/article/4379/viewcontent/13.1.a5
• Institution: De La Salle University

Modal epistemic conditions have played an important role in post-Gettier theories of knowledge. These conditions purportedly eliminate the pernicious kind of luck present in all Gettier-type cases and offer a rather convincing way of refuting skepticism. This motivates the view that conditions of th...