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Gettier Cases

Gettier Cases

▸About this simulation & how to play

You're about to discuss a classic thought experiment from Edmund Gettier's three page 1963 paper, "Is Justified True Belief Knowledge?", Analysis 23 (1963): 121–123. You'll be asked to make a judgment about a case, and then a short series of questions about your answer. At the end of the conversation you'll have the option to send your instructor a transcript. There are no right or wrong answers; just say what you think, and be ready to say why.

An experimental version of this way of investigating thought experiments is developed in Nat Hansen, Kathryn B. Francis, and Hamish Greening, "Socratic Questionnaires," in Oxford Studies in Experimental Philosophy, Volume 5, ed. Joshua Knobe and Shaun Nichols (Oxford University Press, 2024), 331–374, doi.org/10.1093/9780198918905.003.0014.