Philosopher Timothy Williamson

Timothy Williamson

Timothy Williamson is a British philosopher whose main research interests are in philosophical logic, philosophy of language, epistemology and metaphysics....

 writes in his book, Knowledge and its Limits, that the concept of knowledge cannot be analyzed into a set of other concepts; instead, it is sui generis

Sui generis

Sui generis is a Latin expression, literally meaning of its own kind/genus or unique in its characteristics. The expression is often used in analytic philosophy to indicate an idea, an entity, or a reality which cannot be included in a wider concept....

. Thus, though knowledge requires justification, truth, and belief, the word "knowledge" can't be accurately regarded as simply shorthand for "justified true belief".

Table of contents

Introduction

1. A State of Mind

2. Broadness

3. Primeness

4. Anti-Luminosity

5. Margins and Iterations

6. An Application

7. Sensitivity

8. Scepticism

9. Evidence

10. Evidential Probability

11. Assertion

12. Structural Unknowability

Appendices

Bibliography

Index