Dear all:
Edmund L. Gettier III, professor emeritus of philosophy at the University
of Massachusetts, Amherst, has died.
Professor Gettier had interests in philosophy of language, metaphysics, and
logic, but was known for his work in epistemology—famously, for his 3-page
article, “Is Justified True Belief Knowledge?,” published in 1963 in
Analysis. In the paper he provided a pair of cases that served as
counterexamples to the traditional analysis of knowledge as justified,
true, belief. Those types of cases became known as Gettier cases, and the
challenge of repairing the traditional analysis of knowledge in light of
them came to be known as the “Gettier problem.”
The short article spurred an enormous literature dedicated to its
particular problem, and, in turn, a wider range of issues in epistemology.
As one commenter noted in an essay about the Gettier problem, “If you added
up the number of times that this article has been discussed or cited in the
literature (thousands of times), and divided that by the number of words
in the article (approximately 930), the resulting quotient would be larger
than the quotient for any other work of philosophy ever published.”
Prior to moving to the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 1967,
Professor Gettier taught at Wayne State University. He earned his Ph.D. at
Cornell University. He died two weeks ago.
(From dailynous.com
<https://dailynous.com/2021/04/12/edmund-gettier-1927-2021/>)
Mvh. / Yours sincerely,
Torgeir Fjeld <https://torgeirfjeld.com/>
~~ ereignis <https://ereignis.no/>: taking you to who you are ~~
