Putting Knowledge to Work New Directions for Knowledge-First Epistemology

Arturs Logins, Assistant professor of philosophy, Université Laval, Québec,Jacques-Henri Vollet, Postdoctoral researcher, Collège de France

Arturs Logins is an assistant professor of philosophy at Université Laval, Québec, Canada. He works in epistemology and foundational normative questions and has published papers in Philosophical Studies, Ethics, Analysis, Erkenntnis, European Journal of Philosophy, Thought, and Inquiry.


Jacques-Henri Vollet is a postdoctoral researcher at the Collège de France, Paris, France. He is specialized in contemporary epistemology. He has notably published papers in Erkenntnis, Dialectica, Analysis, Topoi, and Theoria.

Preface, Arturs Logins and Jacques-Henri Vollet1. Introduction. Taking knowledge-first further, Arturs Logins and Jacques-Henri VolletPart 1 Historical Perspectives on Knowledge-First2. Where did it come from? Where will it go?, Timothy Williamson3. Knowledge as presence and presentation: Highlights from the history of knowledge-first epistemology, Maria Rosa Antognazza4. Srihar?a on the indefinability of knowledge-events, Nilanjan DasPart 2 Knowledge as a Mental State5. How the brain makes knowledge first, Robert M. Gordon6. Factive mindreading in the folk psychology of action, Carlotta Pavese7. Natural curiosity, Jennifer Nagel8. The point of knowledge: is to make good decisions!, Moritz SchulzPart 3 Knowledge as Explanatorily Prime9. Knowledge-first philosophy of science, Alexander Bird10. Wilful hermeneutical ignorance to the (qualified) rescue of knowledge-first, Veli Mitova11. Reasons and knowledge, Christina Dietz and John Hawthorne12. Knowledge and prizes, Clayton Littlejohn and Julien Dutant13. Perceptual knowledge and the 'activity' of belief, Johannes Roessler