Jonathan Jenkins Ichikawa
Posted in Philosophy on Mar 3rd, 2012
There’s a philosophy of mind reading group at UBC, reading Dretske’s (1981)Â Knowledge and the Flow of Information this spring. I’ve never made a proper study of Dretske’s work before, so I’m finding it extremely useful and interesting. In yesterday’s reading group, I had an idea that I’d like to explore a bit further; consider this [...]
Posted in Philosophy on Feb 13th, 2012
Knowledge shows up in theories a lot lately. Or should I say that ‘knowledge’ shows up in statements of theories? One question I’m hoping to research a fair amount in the near future concerns the status of theoretical claims about knowledge. The knowledge first program, broadly construed, says that knowledge has some kind of priority [...]
Posted in Philosophy on Nov 16th, 2009
Timothy Williamson has famously defended these two claims: (1) Knowledge cannot be analyzed (2) Knowledge can play lots of important explanatory roles all over the place These two claims, if true, give us reason to think about the role of knowledge very differently; use it to explain things, instead, of as something we’re trying to [...]