Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: Knowledge‐first philosophy has fewer adherents than it should. It has the potential to address many of the common problems facing epistemologists, but it is counter‐intuitive in some respects. In this paper, I make the case that the underlying metaphysics of Timothy Williamson's account of knowledge‐first is responsible for some of this counter‐intuitiveness. I argue that we ought to understand knowledge not as an irreducible factive mental attitude towards true propositions, but as an irreducible factive relation with the world.
Source: Philosophical Investigations
DOI: 10.1111/phin.12462
Author: Tess Dewhurst
Institution: Rhodes University
Language: English
Subfield: Philosophy
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
Estimated APC paid: $2,900
OpenAlex ID: W4410535244