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Williamson On Knowledge And Psychological Explanation, P.D. Magnus, Jonathan Cohen
Williamson On Knowledge And Psychological Explanation, P.D. Magnus, Jonathan Cohen
Philosophy Faculty Scholarship
According to many philosophers, psychological explanation canlegitimately be given in terms of belief and desire, but not in termsof knowledge. To explain why someone does what they do (so the common wisdom holds) you can appeal to what they think or what they want, but not what they know. Timothy Williamson has recently argued against this view. Knowledge, Williamson insists, plays an essential role in ordinary psychological explanation.Williamson's argument works on two fronts.First, he argues against the claim that, unlike knowledge, belief is``composite'' (representable as a conjunction of a narrow and a broadcondition). Belief's failure to be composite, Williamson thinks, …
L'Etica Di Lonergan, Richard Liddy
L'Etica Di Lonergan, Richard Liddy
Department of Religion Publications
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"A Shower Of Insights" Autobiography And Intellectual Conversion, Richard Liddy
"A Shower Of Insights" Autobiography And Intellectual Conversion, Richard Liddy
Department of Religion Publications
No abstract provided.
Lonergan's Ethics, Richard Liddy
Lonergan's Ethics, Richard Liddy
Department of Religion Publications
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Intentional Explanation, Psychological Laws, And The Irreducibility Of The First Person Perspective, Karsten Stueber
Intentional Explanation, Psychological Laws, And The Irreducibility Of The First Person Perspective, Karsten Stueber
Philosophy Department Faculty Scholarship
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