Carl Ginet

Carl Ginet (1932— ) is an American philosopher.

Carl Ginet is also credited with the barn-façades counterexample to both the traditional and causal definitions of knowledge. The barn example first appears in Alvin Goldman’s paper, “Discrimination and Perceptual Knowledge” as a challenge to Goldman’s own causal theory.

Selected Works

• “Might We Have No Choice?” (1966)
• “An Incoherence in the Tractatus” (1973)
• Knowledge, Perception, and Memory (1975)
• “The Fourth Condition” (1988)
• On Action (1990)