Bin Zhao, Institute of Foreign Philosophy, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Peking University, Beijing, PR China

Abstract: According to the safety account of knowledge, one knows that p only if one’s belief in p could not easily have been false. In the literature, most objections to the safety account rely on intuition of knowledge that could be easily denied by the safety theorists. In this paper, an objection to the safety account which does not make use of such intuition is raised. It is argued that either there are instances of unsafe knowledge or the safety account has an implausible implication that one’s epistemic status might depend on what happens in the future.

Keywords: Future dependence; knowledge; safety.