Williamson Flashcards
What is Williamson’s first epistemology based on?
knowledge
For Williamson, your evidence is what you _______
know
Williamson argues against the idea that __________ are the ultimate guide here
appearances
Instead Williamson thinks you are generally better acquainted with the
_________ themselves than with their
appearances
objects
What is evidence to Williamson?
Your evidence is the set of facts you
know
What is his formula for evidence?
Evidence = Knowledge (E=K)
Suppose that “the good case” is a situation in which you are an ordinary person who has hands and ordinary sense perception of them, and “the bad case” is a situation in which you are a BIV who only has apparent hands (where the appearances are similar to the good case). Which of the following would Williamson agree with?
Your evidence in the bad case is not the same as your evidence in the good case.
In Williamson’s explanation of contextualism, what does he say that skeptics do, according to contextualism?
He says that contextualists argue that skeptics create contexts in which there are very high standards for the positive application of “know”.
What point is Williamson trying to make with the story about Clare on p.103?
Ultimately, agents can’t just say that different options look wrong in different contexts; an agent’s need to act forces her to pick a side.
Which of the following best captures the criticism of relativism that Williamson advances on the first page of the paper?
Relativists can’t really explain what they mean when they say that something can be true-for-one-person while its opposite is true-for-another-person.
Which of the following would Williamson agree with?
You can’t always tell whether or not you know a given proposition.
What is a factive attitude?
An attitude you can only hold to truths.
Which of the following characterizations of knowledge does Williamson accept?
Knowing is the most general factive mental state.
What are intentional states?
Mental states that are meaningful, like knowledge and belief
What does Williamson argue?
Knowing is a mental state in its own right and not just a compound of believing + non mental factor like causal connections
