Title

Knowledge‐by‐Acquaintance First.

Authors

Kriegel, Uriah

Abstract

Bertrand Russell's epistemology had the interesting structural feature that it made propositional knowledge ("S knows that p") asymmetrically dependent upon what Russell called knowledge by acquaintance. On this view, a subject lacking any knowledge by acquaintance would be unable to know that p for any p. This is something that virtually nobody has defended since Russell, and in this paper I initiate a sympathetic reconsideration.

Subjects

THEORY of knowledge; RUSSELL, Bertrand, 1872-1970; PROPOSITION (Logic); PHILOSOPHY; PSYCHOLOGY

Publication

Philosophy & Phenomenological Research, 2024, Vol 109, Issue 2, p458

ISSN

0031-8205

Publication type

Academic Journal

DOI

10.1111/phpr.13051