Erkenntnis 61 (2-3):187 - 201 (2004)
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According to Fred Dretske's externalist theory of knowledge a subject knows that p if and only if she believes that p and this belief is caused or causally sustained by the information that p. Another famous feature of Dretske's epistemology is his denial that knowledge is closed under known entailment. I argue that, given Dretske's construal of information, he is in fact committed to the view that both information and knowledge are closed under known entailment. Hence, if it is true that, as Dretske also believes, accepting closure leads to skepticism, he must either embrace skepticism or abandon his information theory of knowledge.
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Keywords | epistemic closure Dretske skepticism information theory of knowledge |
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DOI | 10.1007/s10670-004-9283-5 |
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