Persistent burglars and knocks on doors
Causal indispensability of knowing vindicated
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21603128 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Artūrs Logins (0000-0003-4760-9027, Philosophisches Seminar University of Zurich, UZH Zurich Switzerland, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 30 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 1335-1357 |
| Publication date | 2022-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | European Journal of Philosophy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0966-8373 • E-ISSN: 1468-0378 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/ejop.12751 |
| OpenAlex | W4200185311 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 48 |
The aim of the present article is to accomplish two things. The first is to show that given some further plausible assumptions, existing challenges to the indispensability of knowledge in causal explanation of action fail. The second is to elaborate an overlooked and distinct argument in favor of the causal efficacy of knowledge. In short, even if knowledge were dispensable in causal explanation of action, it is still indispensable in causal explanation of other mental attitudes and, in particular, some reactive attitudes and factive emotions. Taking into account this sort of causal efficacy in determining which mental states are genuine mental states opens up new perspectives for defending the view that knowledge is the most general factive and genuine mental state
Causal model · Causal theory of reference · Cognitive psychology · Cognitive science · Epistemology · Mental model · Mental state · sort · Computer Science · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics · Free Will and Agency · Mathematics · Philosophy · Psychology · Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
Knowledge and the flow of information
The Rationality of Emotion
The Opacity of MindAn Integrative Theory of Self-Knowledge
Without Justification
Meaning and Reference
Acting Contrary to Our Professed Beliefs or the Gulf Between Occurrent Judgment and Dispositional Belief
How to Construct a Minimal Theory of Mind
Knowledge and Action
A Causal Theory of Knowing
Knowledge is a mental state (at least sometimes)
The neural and cognitive mechanisms of knowledge attribution
Common Sense and Evidence
To belief or not belief
Accidentally Factive Mental States
Justified Judging
Justified Belief
Actions, Reasons, and Causes
Individualism and the Mental
The structure of emotions
Who Cares What You Know
Belief-Desire Explanation
Young children's conceptions of knowledge
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |