ABSTRACT
This chapter explains the dispositional diagnosis of some of the classic problem cases for the Dretske-Nozick tracking theory and the sceptical challenge vis-a-vis the dispositional theory. It investigates a dispositional theory of knowledge and warranted beliefs, whether there might be some demarcating feature distinguishing those counterexamples that dissolve from those that do not. The dispositionality theory has the resources to articulate precisely what this demarcating feature amounts to: in the former case it is the tracking conditionals that are compromised, whereas it is the tracker Conditionals that are undermined in the latter case. The chapter argues that knowledge is execution of an internal dispositional skill rather than manifestation of an external dispositional property. In particular the dispositional theory makes it transparent whether it is the cognitive agent or the world that is blameworthy when something goes awry in the epistemic project.
