Luck and Fortune, or Why Knowledge Requires Cognitive Control

• Autores: Fernando Broncano Berrocal
• Localización: VII Conference of the Spanish Society for Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science: Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 18-20 July 2012 / Sociedad de Lógica, Metodología y Filosofía de la Ciencia en España (aut.), Concepción Martínez Vidal (dir. congr.), José L. Falguera López (dir. congr.), José Miguel Sagüillo Fernández-Vega (dir. congr.), Víctor Martín Verdejo Aparicio (dir. congr.), Martín Pereira Fariña (dir. congr.), 2012, ISBN 978-84-9887-939-1, págs. 155-161
• Idioma: inglés
• Enlaces
  • Texto Completo Libro
• Resumen

  • In this paper I give a definition of the notion of fortune and I distinguish it from the notion of luck. In the light of this distinction, I identify a knowledge-undermining phenomenon that has not been identified as such and which is different from epistemic luck: epistemic fortune. I advance the hypothesis that most (if not all) not known true beliefs are cases either of epistemic luck or epistemic fortune and I sketch a general strategy of dealing with both knowledge-undermining phenomena at once.