Copyright

Brian Weatherson

Published On

2024-11-21

Page Range

pp. 89–124

Language

  • English

Print Length

36 pages

Knowledge

Chapter of: Knowledge: A Human Interest Story (pp. 89–124)

This chapter sets out how the moves from the previous two chapters combine to generate a constraint on any plausible theory of knowledge. A person has knowledge that p only if it makes sense to use p as a starting point into what they are actually inquiring into. A central focus of this chapter is how this constraint meshes with the idea that we can extend our knowledge by logical deduction.

Contributors

Brian Weatherson

(author)
Marshall M. Weinberg Professor of Philosophy at University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0830-141X
https://brian.weatherson.org/

Brian Weatherson is the Marshall M. Weinberg Professor of Philosophy at the University of Michigan. His previous books are Normative Externalism (OUP, 2019), and A History of Philosophy Journals, Volume 1: Evidence from Topic Modeling, 1876-2013 (Michigan Publishing, 2022). Brian has over 80 journal articles and book chapters; information about them is at https://brian.weatherson.org/.