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2016, Felsefe: Bilginin Peşinde Olmak
This is a brief overview of how philosophers think of knowledge, including reflections on what happens when a commitment to the disinterested pursuit of knowledge is abandoned. Published in Turkey.
Humans have always struggled with fundamental questions regarding knowledge. In order for modern knowledge seekers to understand knowledge, they must look to several philosophical approaches. Just one approach cannot unveil the complexities of the notion of knowledge. What knowledge is and the value of knowledge is a constantly evolving concept that will never remain static.
Metaphilosophy, vol. 46 (2015), pp. 213-234.
Rethinking Knowledge2015 •
The view that the subject matter of epistemology is the concept of knowledge is faced with the problem that all attempts so far to define that concept are subject to counterexamples. As an alternative, this paper argues that the subject matter of epistemology is knowledge itself rather than the concept of knowledge. Moreover, knowledge is not merely a state of mind but rather a certain kind of response to the environment that is essential for survival. In this perspective, the paper outlines an answer to four basic questions about knowledge: What is the role of knowledge in human life? What is the relation between knowledge and reality? How is knowledge acquired? Is there any a priori knowledge?
The question of the value of knowledge, with roots as far as Greeks, has seen a recent rejuvenation in relevance within epistemology. Answering the question of why we value knowledge so much has proven problematic. So problematic, in fact, that some philosophers, such as Jonathan Kvanvig (2003) and Duncan Pritchard (2010) have claimed that knowledge should be replaced by understanding as the legitimate goal of inquiry. This dissertation seeks to show the need to focus more deeply on understanding; its aim is to present understanding - and not knowledge - as the proper goal of inquiry. It will do this through discussing the value problems and where they call for a focus on understanding, as well as considering one theory of knowledge. Then, finally, it will consider why we value understanding more than knowledge and how we can account for its final value more intuitively and less problematically than we can account for the apparent final value of knowledge.
2007 •
The paper gives an a priori argument for the view that knowledge is unanalysable. To establish this conclusion I argue that warrant, i.e. the property, whatever precisely it is, which makes the difference between knowledge and mere true belief, entails both truth and belief and thus does not exist as a property distinct from knowledge: all and only knowledge can turn a true belief into knowledge. The paper concludes that the project of trying to find a condition distinct from knowledge that is necessary and together with truth and belief sufficient for knowledge must be doomed to failure.
The intuition that knowledge is more valuable than true belief generates the value problem in epistemology. The aim in this paper is to focus on the intuitive notion of knowledge itself, in the context of the value problem, and to attempt to bring out just what it is that we intuitively judge to be valuable. It seems to me that the value problem brings to the fore certain commitments we have to the intuitive notion of knowledge, which, if we take seriously, reveal that we actually think of knowledge as an irreducible factive mental state.
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Knowledge-how. forthcoming in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy2021 •
This entry surveys the current literature on knowledge-how, skill, and intelligent action.
Journal of Education, Society and Behavioural Science
Nature of Knowledge in PhilosophyThis article is devoted to the philosophical study of the conditions under which knowledge can become a component or tool of education. The presentation of the contribution of epistemology to human development and education is based on addressing issues such as the nature of knowledge, sources of knowledge, theories, and criteria of truth. We proceed from the idea that knowledge is a condition of education. Particular attention is paid to the issue of distinguishing between such types of knowledge as 'knowing how’ and ‘knowing that'. Educational practices open a common foundation that unites the life world of people, types of sociality, and hermeneutical practices. The epistemological approach to the question of the essence of knowledge assumes that knowledge meets three requirements, namely, knowledge must be objective, subjective, and evidentiary. Epistemology includes subjectivity as the basis of human existence in the natural world and the world with others. Intersubject...
What is the concept of knowledge for? What does it do for us? This question cannot be severed from considerations about what we do by using it. In this paper, I propose to view the point of our concept of knowledge in terms of a device for acknowledging epistemic authority in a social and normative space in which we share valuable information. It is our way of collectively expressing the acknowledgment we owe to others because of their being creditable when engaged in the task of knowing. By using the concept of knowledge we are not just marking the epistemic positions we occupy, we are also acknowledging epistemic authority and indicating the advisability of taking oneself or others as “ready” for the transmission of authority.
EVS Press
Knowledge. An Illustrated History2019 •
This 500+ page volume traces 2500 years of Western philosophical thought on the nature and acquisition of knowledge. The 18 chapters cover important thinkers from Heraclitus, Parmenides, and Protagoras, through Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, the Epicureans, Stoics, and Skeptics, to Christian thinkers on revelation, Descartes, the British empiricists, Kant, Hegel, Existentialism and Phenomenology, Pragmatism, Analytic Philosophy, Bergson, and Polyani, ending with surveys of current trends in epistemology.
Borderless Philosophy
The Most Urgent Task of Philosophy Today2019 •
As a remedy to the weakness of analytic and continental philosophy, this paper supports the view that philosophy is acquisition of knowledge, and compares it with the view that philosophy is a search for understanding, put forward by Peter Hacker in several books.
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