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THE RESURRECTION SHUFFLE: TRACKING THEORIES AND BACKWARD CLOCKS (pages 207-222)

Murray CLARKE and Fred ADAMS ABSTRACT: Several years ago, John Williams posted his final response to Clarke, Adams and Barker in an ongoing debate about the status of Robert Nozick’s truth-tracking account of propositional knowledge and Fred Dretske’s early “Conclusive Reasons” account of knowledge. In this paper, we respond directly to his “Still Stuck on the Backward Clock” paper. We …

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TWO NON-COUNTER EXAMPLES TO TRUTH-TRACKING THEORIES OF KNOWLEDGE (pages 67-73)

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 …

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