Oxford Scholarship Online 2017
DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198716310.003.0002
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How and Why Knowledge is First

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 … Show more

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“…Broad factualists need to say something substantive about what it takes to possess (= to access, to have) a reason. For if reasons are facts or true propositions they are not automatically within one's ken in a way that could justify one's attitudes and actions (Williamson 2000;Whiting 2014;Schroeder 2015;Sylvan 2015Sylvan , 2016Sylvan , 2018Littlejohn 2017;Neta 2017;Lord 2018a). Imagine that you are currently standing in front of an oak tree and you have no other information about the oak apart from your general knowledge of oaks and what you can visually "pick up" about this oak while looking at it.…”
Section: Background I: a Quick Primer On Reasons-first Epistemologymentioning
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“…Broad factualists need to say something substantive about what it takes to possess (= to access, to have) a reason. For if reasons are facts or true propositions they are not automatically within one's ken in a way that could justify one's attitudes and actions (Williamson 2000;Whiting 2014;Schroeder 2015;Sylvan 2015Sylvan , 2016Sylvan , 2018Littlejohn 2017;Neta 2017;Lord 2018a). Imagine that you are currently standing in front of an oak tree and you have no other information about the oak apart from your general knowledge of oaks and what you can visually "pick up" about this oak while looking at it.…”
Section: Background I: a Quick Primer On Reasons-first Epistemologymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…One prominent view of possession is centered on knowledge: we possess only those facts that we know (Williamson 2000;Littlejohn 2017): 3…”
Section: Background Ii: Motivations For Knowledge-centric Views Of Pomentioning
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“…At least, the case Littlejohn presents in his (2013). For a different argument for thinking that Knowledge is the fundamental norm for belief, see Littlejohn (2017). I hope to address this elsewhere.…”
Section: Epistemic Assessmentmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…1 See, for example, Littlejohn 2013Littlejohn , 2014Littlejohn , 2017Littlejohn , 2018Williamson 2005aWilliamson , 2005b forthcoming. See also Sutton 2007.…”
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