Question
The “Great Pumpkin” objection attacks a position named for this field that was co-developed by William Alston. Linda Zagzebski developed a neo-Aristotelian view in this field inspired by Ernest Sosa’s The Raft and the Pyramid. Alvin Plantinga’s “reformed” variant of this field holds certain claims to be “properly basic.” Susan Haack synthesized two major positions in this field as “foundherentism.” A paper in this field describes a (*) “case” in which Smith and Jones apply for the same job, and Jones has ten coins in his pocket. Edmund Gettier critiqued the Meno and Theaetetus’s definition of this field’s central concept as “justified true belief.” For 10 points, what field of philosophy is the study of knowledge? ■END■
ANSWER: epistemology [accept reformed epistemology; accept virtue epistemology; prompt on philosophy of knowledge until “knowledge” is read; prompt on belief or epistemic justification; prompt on philosophy until read]
<Forrest Weintraub, RMP - Philosophy> ~28100~ <Editor: Vincent Du>
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Summary
Tournament | Edition | Exact Match? | TUH | Conv. % | Power % | Neg % | Average Buzz |
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2024 PACE NSC | 06/08/2024 | Y | 34 | 100% | 15% | 0% | 88.79 |