Knowing What It Is Like

This Element explores the concept of 'what it is like' knowledge, addressing the tension between having a corresponding experience and knowing an answer to the 'what it is like' question. It explains debates and conflicts in attitudes toward sharing this knowledge through testimony, literature, theories, and simulations.

List of contents

1. Introduction; 2. Anti-Intellectualism; 3. Qualified Intellectualism; 4. Downstream Intellectualism; 5. Testimony and partial WIL-knowledge; 6. Pitfalls and possibilities; Conclusions; References.

Summary

This Element explores the concept of 'what it is like' knowledge, addressing the tension between having a corresponding experience and knowing an answer to the 'what it is like' question. It explains debates and conflicts in attitudes toward sharing this knowledge through testimony, literature, theories, and simulations.

Product details

• Authors: Yuri Cath, Yuri (La Trobe University) Cath
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2024
• EAN: 9781009323734
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0932373-4
• No. of pages: 74
• Series: Elements in Epistemology
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Mind & Body, PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind, Ethics & moral philosophy, Ethics and moral philosophy, Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge