ABSTRACT

This chapter contains a brief introduction to analysing knowledge, and frames an issue, followed by an example. It is followed by a short discussion and then a series of questions. The chapter provides some ideas together, which seems to make sense to suppose that knowledge involves having true beliefs. The example presents a case where Samantha drives a blue Ford. Bert knows this. It seems that Samantha has formed her true belief without consulting the kinds of source that, in this particular instance, would have appropriately connected her with the object of her belief. The questions are intended to get the philosophy students thinking about this problems. They have used these kinds of questions in seminars as the questions set for seminars, so they also think that they can be used to spark conversation and discussion. The chapter also gives a cursory sketch of some of the ways in which philosophers have responded to the thought experiment.