11 Facts About Edmund Gettier

Edmund Lee Gettier III was an American philosopher at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Edmund Lee Gettier III was born on October 31, 1927, in Baltimore, Maryland.

Edmund Gettier earned his PhD in philosophy from Cornell University in 1961 with a dissertation on “Bertrand Russell's Theories of Belief” written under the supervision of Norman Malcolm.

Edmund Gettier taught philosophy at Wayne State University from 1957 until 1967 initially as an Instructor, then as an assistant professor, and, latterly, as an associate professor.

Edmund Gettier's recorded field of research being "Bertrand Russell's theories of belief, and their effect on contemporary thought.

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In 1967 Edmund Gettier was recruited to the faculty of philosophy at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, being promoted to full professor there in 1972.

Edmund Gettier taught there until his retirement, as Professor Emeritus, in 2001.

Edmund Gettier's fame rests on a three-page article, published in Analysis in 1963 that remains one of the most famous in recent philosophical history.

Edmund Gettier's article offered counter-examples to this account in the form of cases such that subjects had true beliefs that were justified, but for which the beliefs were true for reasons unrelated to the justification.

Edmund Gettier provides several examples of beliefs that are both true and justified, but that we should not intuitively term knowledge.

Edmund Gettier inspired a great deal of work by philosophers attempting to recover a working definition of knowledge.