How and why knowledge is first
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Littlejohn, Clayton. (2017). How and why knowledge is first. In Knowledge first : Approaches in epistemology and mind pp. 19-45 Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198716310.003.0002
Authors | Littlejohn, Clayton |
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Abstract | This chapter’s dialectical aim has, as its focus, a sustained defence of the claim that one cannot have a reason in one’s possession unless it is something that one knows. This view is claimed to have advantages over a different way of thinking about epistemic status. On the ‘reasons-first’ approach to epistemic status, reasons and the possession of them are prior to epistemic status. In reversing this picture, the chapter reveals an important sense in which knowledge comes first—namely, in that we first come to have reasons in our possession by coming to know that certain things are true; there is nothing prior to knowledge that puts these reasons in our possession. In the course of advancing this picture, the chapter furthermore offers a defence of Williamson’s identification of evidence and knowledge (E=K). |
Keywords | knowledge; evidence; knowledge-first epistemology; perception; reasons; internalism/externalism; value of knowledge |
Page range | 19-45 |
Year | 2017 |
Book title | Knowledge first : Approaches in epistemology and mind |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Place of publication | Oxford, United Kingdom |
ISBN | 9780198716310 |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198716310.003.0002 |
Scopus EID | 2-s2.0-85049624369 |
Open access | Published as green open access |
Author's accepted manuscript | License All rights reserved File Access Level Open |
Publisher's version | License All rights reserved File Access Level Controlled |
Output status | Published |
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Online | Dec 2017 |
2017 | |
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Deposited | 26 May 2022 |
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