Lauener Foundation for Analytical Philosophy
Symposium
Thursday 30 May - Friday 31 May 2024
Haus der Universität, Bern, Switzerland
10th International Lauener Symposium on Analytical Philosophy
on Themes from Timothy Williamson
Professor Barbara Vetter
(Freie Universität Berlin)
Modal Knowledge in Action
Tim Williamson has recently integrated his knowledge-first approach to epistemology with his intellectualism about knowledge-how. Filling in details from Stanley and Williamson’s original statement of intellectualism (2001), the integrated picture turns out to yield an interesting species of modal knowledge: knowledge of the agent’s own abilities. My aim will be to better understand this modal knowledge within the scope of both Williamson’s knowledge-first approach to epistemology and his anti-exceptionalist epistemology of modality.