Formal Models of Fallible Knowledge
Abstract
In this thesis I review and analyze Holliday’s \citeyearpar{KWF} work on the relation between fallibilism and closure. The main concern in Holliday’s work is to show that most major fallibilistic theories of knowledge inherently suffer from at least one problem among a set of problems and that there are essential assumptions that must be added to the models representing this family of theories to solve the problem.
I first review the epistemologic theories which are the basis of the study, and later discuss their formalizations and how Holliday’s theory identifies and solves the problem. At the end I evaluate Holliday’s formalization of one of these theories of knowledge, namely Lewis’s theory, and argues that the model presented by Holliday is not entirely faithful to Lewis’s theory and needs to undergo certain changes.
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Philosophy
Citation
Ahmadianhosseini, Z. (2017). Formal Models of Fallible Knowledge (Master's thesis, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada). Retrieved from https://prism.ucalgary.ca. doi:10.11575/PRISM/26213