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<p class="MsoNormal">The next Philosophy Department Colloquium will be held:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Friday, February 28, 2014<br>
3:30 p.m. – HH 334 <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Carrie Jenkins, University of British Columbia<br>
<b>On Putting Knowledge ‘First’<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">On a traditional picture, prevalent in twentieth-century analytic epistemology, knowledge was to be analysed in terms of notions like truth, belief, and justification. These
analysans-properties (along with whatever else one invoked in one's theory of knowledge) were supposed to be in some sense 'prior to' or 'more basic than' knowledge. In the twenty-first century, the traditional picture has been questioned, notably by Timothy
Williamson. The 'knowledge first' program takes knowledge itself as basic, and uses it to explain notions that had traditionally been used in knowledge's analysans. The topic of this paper is to examine in what this kind of shift might consist. What does it
mean for knowledge to be, in the relevant sense, 'first'? We distinguish conceptual from metaphysical interpretations of the knowledge first program --- according the former, the concept KNOWS is somehow primitive, basic, or unanalysable; according the the
latter, the state or relation of knowing is somehow ontologically privileged. We catalogue a series of possible views, and argue that some of them have been conflated in important ways in the literature. We conclude with a tentative examination of what considerations
might count in favour of or against each kind of knowledge 'first' view. This paper is co-authored with Jonathan Jenkins Ichikawa.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">A list of our upcoming talks and events can be found at <a href="https://uwaterloo.ca/philosophy/events">https://uwaterloo.ca/philosophy/events</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Vicki Brett</b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Hobo Std","sans-serif""><br>
</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt">Undergraduate Coordinator<br>
Philosophy Department – HH 365<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt">Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3G1<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt">Tel: 519-888-4567 x32449<br>
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