Logos & Episteme

Volume 5, Issue 3, 2014

Benoit Gaultier
Pages 265-274

An Argument Against the Possibility of Gettiered Beliefs

In this paper, I propose a new argument against Gettier‘s counterexamples to the thesis that knowledge is justified true belief. I claim that if there is no doxastic voluntarism, and if it is admitted that one has formed the belief that p at t1 if, at t0, one would be surprised to learn or discover that not-p, it can be plausibly argued that Gettiered beliefs simply cannot be formed.