Gettier and Plantinga's Revised Account of Warrant
In a recent article in Analysis (Plantinga 1997), Alvin Plantinga suggests an amendment to his account of warrant aimed at remedying its inability to handle certain types of Gettier cases. I will argue in this paper that there are two difficulties with his adjusted account. First, Plantinga suggests that warrant requires a favourable ‘mini-environment’. I shall argue though that no state of affairs satisfies his definition of a mini-environment. And second, I shall argue that his adjusted account is still vulnerable to Gettier difficulties. Finally, I’ll propose an alternative amendment to Plantinga’s account, one which I believe has better prospects for fending off Gettier.