Remembering is not a kind of knowing.

This paper purports to disprove an orthodox view in contemporary epistemology that I call ‘the epistemic conception of memory’, which sees remembering as a kind of epistemic success, in particular, a kind of knowing. This conception is embodied in a cluster of platitudes in epistemology, including ‘...

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Publicado en:Synthese Vol. 200; no. 4; pp. 1 - 17
Autor principal: Lai, Changsheng
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Publicado: Springer Nature Aug2022
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        Anti-luck epistemology
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        The epistemic conception of memory
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        Virtue theory of memory
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