How Believing Can Fail to Be Knowing
This paper puts forward necessary and suffficient conditions for knowing, and addresses Timothy Williamson's claims (a) that knowledge is an un-analyzable mental state, and (b) that any such analysis is futile. It is argued that such an account has explanatory motivation: it explains when belie...
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| description | This paper puts forward necessary and suffficient conditions for knowing, and addresses Timothy Williamson's claims (a) that knowledge is an un-analyzable mental state, and (b) that any such analysis is futile. It is argued that such an account has explanatory motivation: it explains when belief fails to be knowledge. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-d4c92a136b8348edbfc8b01e316c34fc2022-12-22T00:24:57ZengUniversity of the Basque CountryTheoria0495-45482171-679X2010-01-0121218519410.1387/theoria.537537How Believing Can Fail to Be KnowingMurali RAMACHANDRANThis paper puts forward necessary and suffficient conditions for knowing, and addresses Timothy Williamson's claims (a) that knowledge is an un-analyzable mental state, and (b) that any such analysis is futile. It is argued that such an account has explanatory motivation: it explains when belief fails to be knowledge.http://www.ehu.es/ojs/index.php/THEORIA/article/view/537knowledge, externalism, closure principle, Williamson. |
| spellingShingle | Murali RAMACHANDRAN How Believing Can Fail to Be Knowing Theoria knowledge, externalism, closure principle, Williamson. |
| title | How Believing Can Fail to Be Knowing |
| title_full | How Believing Can Fail to Be Knowing |
| title_fullStr | How Believing Can Fail to Be Knowing |
| title_full_unstemmed | How Believing Can Fail to Be Knowing |
| title_short | How Believing Can Fail to Be Knowing |
| title_sort | how believing can fail to be knowing |
| topic | knowledge, externalism, closure principle, Williamson. |
| url | http://www.ehu.es/ojs/index.php/THEORIA/article/view/537 |
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