Research Group
in Analytic Philosophy

Abstract

What is the relation between knowledge and attitudes? On one view, knowledge is just a heavily qualified attitude, a type of belief. I argue that various features of attitudes – doxastic, conative and affective – show that knowledge cannot be any sort of attitude. Rather, attitudes are reactions to what we know or seem to know. Attitudes typically display correctness conditions, polarity and degrees. Knowledge displays none of these features. But knowledge, like attitudes, may be propositional or non-propositional.