Human knowledge, as we understand it in the everyday, appears to make up a complex category, admitting of numerous forms, species, modes, or variations. Reflection on this complexity reveals a whole ecosystem of questions and issues worthy of careful philosophical investigation. Yet contemporary epistemology tends to downplay the heterogeneity of knowledge, in part through its distinctively narrow focusDLprimarily on 'receptive' propositional knowledgeDLand in part through a tendency to assume, rather than to investigate, the perfectly general applicability of the various definitions of knowledge it develops. Against this background, many questions and issues concerning the heterogeneity of knowledge remain under-explored. This volume identifies the study of the unity and heterogeneity of knowledge as a distinct subtopic of epistemology. It asks what forms of knowledge there are, what is distinctive about each, how they relate to one another, and what kind, or kinds, of unity we can discern unity amongst them. Forms of Knowledge brings together philosophers working across a broad range of the philosophical literatureDLnot only in contemporary theory of knowledge, but also in the history of philosophy, the epistemology of understanding, philosophy of mind, action-theory, ethics, art and aesthetics, and philosophy of psychiatryDLto consider how best to theorize the unity and heterogeneity of knowledge. By foregrounding this underexplored set of issues, it offers a new perspective on some of the most central of our ordinary epistemological categories.
Part I. Forms of Knowledge: Distinctions and Connections 1: Lucy Campbell: Knowledge: Unity, Heterogeneity, and Methodology 2: Katalin Farkas: The Unity of Knowledge 3: Stephen R. Grimm: Knowledge, Know-How, Understanding, and Wisdom: An Epistemic Guide 4: Michael Kremer: The Development of Gilbert Ryle's Conception of Knowledge 5: Nathan Hauthaler: Practical Knowledge and Practical Knowledge 6: Kim Frost: Forms of Knowledge, Explanation, and Abstraction Part II. Specific Forms of Knowledge in Focus 7: Kurt Sylvan: Inference and the Presentational Conception of Knowing 8: Eric Marcus: Knowing What You Want 9: Alan Millar: Detached Factual Knowledge, Memory, and Informational Environments 10: Johannes Roessler: Centralism in Epistemology: The Challenge from Diversity 11: Matt Duncan and Hannah Nahas: Getting Acquainted with Art: Aesthetics and Knowledge of Things 12: Roy Dings and Derek W. Strijbos: Experiential Knowledge in Mental Health Care: A Coherent Concept? Part III. Knowledge, Understanding, Virtue, and Life Lived Together 13: Anita Avramides: Exploring a Duality in the Problem of Other Minds 14: Naomi Eilan: On Knowing I Am Not Alone in the Universe 15: Alison Hills: Learning from Others: Understanding and Knowledge 16: Mary Margaret McCabe: Knowing Better
Lucy Campbell is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Warwick, having previously held a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship (2018DS2021). She has also held teaching and research positions at the University of Oxford (2016DS18) and the University of Edinburgh (2015DS16). Campbell completed her PhD at Cambridge in 2015. She has published on various issues in the intersection of epistemology, the philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of action, including work on: practical knowledge; psychological self-knowledge; perceptual knowledge; mental agency, and on Elizabeth Anscombe's work in action-theory, epistemology, and ethics.
