Saving sensitivity

Publikation: Beitrag in FachzeitschriftArtikelPeer-reviewed

Abstract

Sensitivity has sometimes been thought to be a highly epistemologically significant property, serving as a proxy for a kind of responsiveness to the facts that ensure that the truth of our beliefs isn’t just a lucky coincidence. But it's an imperfect proxy: there are various well-known cases in which sensitivity-based anti-luck conditions return the wrong verdicts. And as a result of these failures, contemporary theorists often dismiss such conditions out of hand. I show here, though, that a sensitivity-based understanding of epistemic luck can be developed that respects what was attractive about sensitivity-based approaches in the first place but that's immune to these failures.
OriginalspracheEnglisch
Seiten (von - bis)177-196
Seitenumfang20
FachzeitschriftPhilosophical Quarterly
Jahrgang72
Ausgabenummer1
DOIs
PublikationsstatusVeröffentlicht - 2022

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