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Knowledge‐first functionalism
Author(s) -
Simion Mona
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
philosophical issues
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.638
H-Index - 18
eISSN - 1758-2237
pISSN - 1533-6077
DOI - 10.1111/phis.12152
Subject(s) - functionalism (philosophy of mind) , normative , epistemology , extant taxon , received view of theories , competitor analysis , cognition , function (biology) , philosophy , psychology , sociology , economics , management , evolutionary biology , neuroscience , biology
This paper has two aims. The first is critical: I identify a set of normative desiderata for accounts of justified belief and I argue that prominent knowledge first views have difficulties meeting them. Second, I argue that my preferred account, knowledge first functionalism, is preferable to its extant competitors on normative grounds. This account takes epistemically justified belief to be belief generated by properly functioning cognitive processes that have generating knowledge as their epistemic function.