Williamson on Knowledge and Psychological Explanation
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Williamson on Knowledge and Psychological Explanation∗
According to many philosophers, psychological explanation can legitimately be given in terms of belief and desire, but not in terms of knowledge. To explain why someone does what they do (so the common wisdom holds) you can appeal to what they think or what they want, but not what they know. Timothy Williamson has recently argued against this view. Knowledge, Williamson insists, plays an essent...
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Timothy Williamson’s Knowledge and its Limits is a treasure trove of philosophical riches. By reversing the usual explanatory order and putting “knowledge first” in epistemology (p. v) Williamson reconceives the relationships between knowledge, belief, justification and evidence. While there is much to be said about Williamson’s ambitious project, I will focus on his imaginative account of evid...
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عنوان ژورنال: Philosophical Studies
سال: 2003
ISSN: 0031-8116
DOI: 10.1023/b:phil.0000005558.40211.01