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Murray Clarke, Fred Adams, and John A. Barker ABSTRACT: In “Beat the (Backward) Clock,” we argued that John Williams and Neil Sinhababu’s Backward Clock Case fails to be a counterexample to Robert Nozick’s or Fred Dretske’s Theories of Knowledge. Williams’ reply to our paper, “There’s Nothing to Beat a Backward Clock: A Rejoinder to Adams, Barker and Clarke,” is a further …

Fred ADAMS, John A. BARKER, Murray CLARKE ABSTRACT: In a recent very interesting and important challenge to tracking theories of knowledge, Williams & Sinhababu claim to have devised a counter-example to tracking theories of knowledge of a sort that escapes the defense of those theories by Adams & Clarke.  In this paper we will explain why this is not true. Tracking theories are …

Fred ADAMS, Murray CLARKE ABSTRACT: In a recent paper, Tristan Haze offers two examples that, he claims, are counterexamples to Nozick’s Theory of Knowledge. Haze claims his examples work against Nozick’s theory understood as relativized to belief forming methods M. We believe that they fail to be counterexamples to Nozick’s theory. Since he aims the examples at tracking theories generally, we …