When Is True Belief Knowledge?

by Richard Foley

A woman glances at a broken clock and comes to believe it is a quarter past seven. Yet, despite the broken clock, it really does happen to be a quarter past seven. Her belief is true, but it isn't knowledge. This is a classic illustration of a central problem in epistemology: determining what knowledge requires in addition to true belief. In this provocative book, Richard Foley finds a new solution to the problem in the observation that whenever someone...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691154724
• ISBN13: 9780691154725
• Release Date: July 2012
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.6" x 8.5"