The Gettier Intuition from South America to Asia

• Published in: Journal of Indian Council of Philosophical Research 2017-09, Vol.34 (3), p.517-541
• Main Authors: Machery, Edouard, Stich, Stephen, Rose, David, Alai, Mario, Angelucci, Adriano, Berniūnas, Renatas, Buchtel, Emma E., Chatterjee, Amita, Cheon, Hyundeuk, Cho, In-Rae, Cohnitz, Daniel, Cova, Florian, Dranseika, Vilius, Lagos, Ángeles Eraña, Ghadakpour, Laleh, Grinberg, Maurice, Hannikainen, Ivar, Hashimoto, Takaaki, Horowitz, Amir, Hristova, Evgeniya, Jraissati, Yasmina, Kadreva, Veselina, Karasawa, Kaori, Kim, Hackjin, Kim, Yeonjeong, Lee, Minwoo, Mauro, Carlos, Mizumoto, Masaharu, Moruzzi, Sebastiano, Olivola, Christopher Y., Ornelas, Jorge, Osimani, Barbara, Romero, Carlos, Lopez, Alejandro Rosas, Sangoi, Massimo, Sereni, Andrea, Songhorian, Sarah, Sousa, Paulo, Struchiner, Noel, Tripodi, Vera, Usui, Naoki, del Mercado, Alejandro Vázquez, Volpe, Giorgio, Vosgerichian, Hrag Abraham, Zhang, Xueyi, Zhu, Jing
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Education; Philosophy
• ISSN: 0970-7794; 2363-9962
• DOI: 10.1007/s40961-017-0113-y

This article examines whether people share the Gettier intuition (viz. that someone who has a true justified belief that p may nonetheless fail to know that p ) in 24 sites, located in 23 countries (counting Hong Kong as a distinct country) and across 17 languages. We also consider the possible influence of gender and personality on this intuition with a very large sample size. Finally, we examine whether the Gettier intuition varies across people as a function of their disposition to engage in “reflective” thinking.