Breaking with Orthodoxy: Encroachment and the Bank Cases

Abstract

According to an important tradition that has been passed down through many centuries, only truth-conducive epistemic desiderata such as reliability, evidence, safety considerations, and the like determine whether or not s’s true belief that p amounts to knowledge that p.¹ This tradition has recently been named “intellectualism” and it is the reigning orthodoxy in contemporary analytic epistemology.² Orthodoxies tend to travel in packs. What would original sin be without substitutionary atonement? Trickle-down economics without widespread income disparity?