Research Group
in Analytic Philosophy

The paper offers a criticism of some positive theses about knowledge influentially advanced by Tim Williamson. In particular, the paper argues that knowledge is not typically accessible by introspection and that, via a well-known route, this fact yields fairly strong reasons to think that knowledge is not a mental state. Moreover, independently of the mentality of knowledge, the paper constructs a novel kind of counterexample to the claim that knowledge is the most general factive mental state. Finally, independently of the mentality or generality of knowledge, the paper presents a reductio of the claim that what one knows is always part of one’s evidence.