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Knowing What Things Are

Part of the Synthese Library Book Series (volume 466)

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-07365-6

ISBN: 978-3-031-07364-9

Publisher: Springer International Publishing - Springer Journals

Aug 9, 2022

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Introduction

Abath, André J.

Pages: 1 –8

[This is an introductory chapter. Here I present and discuss the aims of the book, namely, to provide an account of the knowledge of what things are given in the province of epistemology proper and to develop it in several directions. Next, I introduce, with a broad brush, views which are of...
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The Knowledge of What Things Are: Possible Views

Abath, André J.

Pages: 11 –21

[This chapter is mainly dedicated to a discussion of possible accounts of the knowledge of what things are. In fact, knowledge of this sort is largely unexplored in the philosophical literature. But possible views on the issue can be generated if we work with a traditional distinction in the...
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Questions and Answers: Understanding Knowledge-Wh

Abath, André J.

Pages: 23 –40

[An important step in building an account of the knowledge of what things are is to recognize that knowledge of this sort is a species of knowledge-wh, which includes, for example, knowledge-who, knowledge-where, knowledge-which and knowledge-why. Sentences of knowledge-wh involve interrogative...
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The Erotetic View

Abath, André J.

Pages: 41 –59

[This chapter introduces the erotetic view of the knowledge of what things are, and it involves an application of the account developed in Chap. 3 to this sort of knowledge. I introduce the view by focusing mostly on the knowledge of what the kind water is, a philosopher’s favorite. In this...
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The Gradability of the Knowledge of What Things Are

Abath, André J.

Pages: 63 –75

[This chapter discusses the gradability of the knowledge of what things are. Like other types of knowledge-wh, the knowledge of what things are can come in different degrees or hold to different extents. Patricia may know in part what COVID-19 is, and Patrick, a GP, may know what COVID-19 is...
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Social Kinds, the Erotetic View and Erotetic Amelioration

Abath, André J.

Pages: 77 –100

[This chapter focuses on social kinds. What is to know what a social kind is? I argue that some social kinds—such as the kind recession—pose no especial difficulties for the erotetic view. However, other social kinds—which I call strongly social kinds—may represent a significant challenge to the...
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The Knowledge of What Things Are: Ignorance and Obligations

Abath, André J.

Pages: 101 –122

[This chapter turns to matters which are essential in the current political and philosophical climate. I discuss the ignorance of what things are—which is a form of erotetic ignorance—and also in which conditions one is culpably ignorant in respect to what a given thing is. For example, during...

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