Department of Philosophy: Whitney Schwab, University of Maryland
4:00 PM 鈥� 6:00 PM
The Gregory Vlastos Memorial Lecture
Epistemic Luck in Ancient and Contemporary Epistemology
Whitney Schwab, University of Maryland
Thursday, March 24, 2022
4:00-6:00 pm
Watson Hall, Room 517
In this talk I argue that Plato and Aristotle did not take an anti-veritic luck
condition to be target-setting for their accounts of epist锚m锚. Veritic luck
"occurs when it is a matter of luck that one's [cognitive state] is true, given
how one forms it" (Pritchard). Thus, I argue that Plato and Aristotle did not
posit their specific conditions on epist锚m锚 in order to exclude epistemic
states that are true by luck from counting as epist锚m锚. This contrasts with
today鈥檚 epistemologists鈥� investigations into knowledge, which are united, or
so I shall argue, by taking an anti-veritic luck condition to be target-setting.
Thus, I conclude that we should not take Plato and Aristotle's accounts of
epist锚m锚 to be accounts of knowledge, at least not as such.
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