Virtue epistemology and the Gettier dilemma

The Gettier dilemma facing reductive analyses of knowledge has not been properly appreciated by virtue epistemologists or even epistemology’s most vocal critics. This paper starts considering how recent critics epistemology understand the problem virtue-theoretic accounts knowledge. highlights is more general than these seem to suggest. It then elucidates worry that threat really a between counterexamples and radical skepticism. Finally, considers some have tried viably defuse problem. shows (i) just critiques it (mis)shaped dialectic what required in solving (ii) this led underestimating widespread insidiousness counterexamples.