Achievements and Top Problems of Modern Analytical Epistemology. An Interview with Duncan Pritchard

Abstract

The famous British-American philosopher Duncan Pritchard talks about the main directions of his research, about the solution of the Gettier problem, about the current state of epistemology. The assumption that knowledge excludes chance (anti-luck condition), and also depends on the cognitive abilities of the person (ability condition), the concepts of anti-luck and anti-risk virtue epistemologies built on it, are currentlyone of the most powerful intellectual tools for analyzing knowledge. Moreover, this approach allows us to hope for a return to the epistemology of the “old” ideal that truth is a “fundamental epistemic good”, which was almost forbidden after A. Goldman’s reliabilism, that understood “the concern for truth as maximizing the number of true beliefs”. The refusal to understand the truth as a virtue leads to the loss of the universality of the applicability of philosophy “outside the Academy”, which significantly affects our assessment of both the rationality of religious beliefs and modern media and the post-truth phenomenon.