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Longworth, Guy and Wimmer, Simon (2022) Cook Wilson on knowledge and forms of thinking. Synthese, 200 (4). 276. doi:10.1007/s11229-022-03748-1 ISSN 1573-0964.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-022-03748-1
Abstract
John Cook Wilson is an important predecessor of contemporary knowledge first epistemologists: among other parallels, he claimed that knowledge is indefinable. We reconstruct four arguments for this claim discernible in his work, three of which find no clear analogues in contemporary discussions of knowledge first epistemology. We pay special attention to Cook Wilson’s view of the relation between knowledge and forms of thinking (like belief). Claims of Cook Wilson’s that support the indefinability of knowledge include: that knowledge, unlike belief, straddles an active/passive divide; that, rather than entailing belief, knowledge excludes belief; and that understanding forms of thinking other than knowledge (such as belief) depends on understanding knowledge. Reflecting on Cook Wilson’s framework highlights underappreciated concerns relevant to any attempt to define knowledge.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BC Logic | ||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Psychology | ||||||
SWORD Depositor: | Library Publications Router | ||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Wilson, John Cook, 1849-1915, Epistemic logic, Thought and thinking, Belief and doubt, Entailment (Logic) | ||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Synthese | ||||||
Publisher: | Springer Netherlands | ||||||
ISSN: | 1573-0964 | ||||||
Official Date: | 27 June 2022 | ||||||
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Volume: | 200 | ||||||
Number: | 4 | ||||||
Article Number: | 276 | ||||||
DOI: | 10.1007/s11229-022-03748-1 | ||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 13 July 2022 | ||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 13 July 2022 | ||||||
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